chichi

comparative more chichi · superlative most chichi · alternative chi-chi · alternative chi chi · alternative shi-shi · alternative shi shi

1. derogatorymildlyAffectedly trendy; chic and stylish in a pretentious way.

   Going in gangs to those chichi clubs at Maidenhead.

   1951, Elizabeth Taylor, A Game of Hide and Seek

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   We drove up the mountain and found the narrow streets chock full of chichi tourists.

   1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC

   The sort of real delicious Italian country cooking that is a revelation after so much chichi Italian food dished up in London.

   1969 January 22, Daily Telegraph

   Not since a journalist morphed into Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate has a metamorphosis been so jarring. Of course, there were clues: Michael kicked a puppy in the very second episode, and no self-respecting Elysium so closely resembles a chichi outdoor mall in Pasadena.

   2017 September 20, Sophie Gilbert, “The Good Place Is Still TV Heaven”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2018

   If this was in Cornwall, which it so closely resembles, it would have become the most chichi of gentrified enclaves, colonised by big-name chefs and celebrity regulars.

   2019 September 9, Nick Trend, “Why now is the perfect time to rediscover an old favourite across the Channel”, in Daily Telegraph

   But if the mix is no longer about life's essentials, and instead a new wave of chichi cafés, artisan bakers and fancy nail bars—are we right to ask, not how useful is your high street, but how bougie?

   2025 August 2, Cathy Hawker, “How bougie is your high street?”, in FT Weekend (House & Home section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1

   Synonyms: bougie, bourgie

plural chichis

1. Latin Americain pluralslangA woman's breast.

   [H]e rubbed [his hands] with Bag Balm to help the cuts heal and keep the skin soft, a trick he'd learned from his grandmother, who told him when he was eighteen and getting ready for a date that no woman wanted to feel rough hands scratching up her chichis.

   2011, Barbara Samuel, The Girls in the Basement: Celebration Book

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   And later, in Latin Grill Express, Jesus makes sure to compliment her accent, her vocabulary, to express admiration for the way her chichis looked in the last dress all over again, then Sarah asks about his plans for work, what he will do when they all leave.

   2014, Stephen May, Wake Up Happy Every Day

1. alternativeAlternative form of Jiji.

   This experiment was carried out on a 13° (24%) slope banana plantation with clay loam soil at Chichi, Nantou Hsien from September 1970 to December 1975.

   1977, 中華農學會報, numbers 97-100, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 100

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   South of Songpoling is Yuanchuan, a station on the famous Chichi Railway Line. Named after the picturesque small town of Chichi to the east, trains on this line take 50 minutes to travel the less than 30 km (19 miles) of narrow gauge that span the rustic countryside between Changhua and Nantou counties, making it the island’s most popular tourist railway line. Though Chichi was the epicenter of the 9-21 Earthquake (sometimes referred to in Taiwan as the Chichi Earthquake), and was nearly levelled, the railway line is already restored, the colonial-style station rebuilt, and the town on the way to recovery.

   2003, “Nantou County”, in Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 205

   Compared to the disaster areas of Chichi and Puli in central Taiwan, the areas that were relatively unaffected by the earthquake can be said to have encountered a strong karmic retribution but got away with little harm.

   2005, Cheng Yen, “Self-Enhancement”, in Foreign Language Publications Department, transl., edited by Douglas Shaw, The Cycle of Beauty, Taipei: Jing Si Publications Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150

   Nine months after the ‘Interim Statute’ took effect a magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit Taiwan on 21 September 1999, which was generally referred to as the 921 Earthquake.⁵¹ The epicentre — Chichi (Jiji) — was roughly 20 kilometres to the south of Chunghsing New Village, and the earthquake destroyed almost half of the community.

   2015, Bi-yu Chang, Place, Identity and National Imagination in Postwar Taiwan, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL

   On February 25, Magistrate Lin Ming-chen surveyed a few pieces of land at Jushan, Chichi, Nantou, Caotun, and more, accompanied by the staff of the Department of Finance, Department of Land Administration, and other related offices.[…] Then Magistrate Lin went to Chichi, Caotun, and Nantou. He surveyed Chichi Train Station, the agricultural land behind Caotun Water Plant, Caotun Second Cemetery, Zen Cultural Park, the public parking lot by Zhongshan Village at Caotun Town, and the land for dumping used equipment along Wenhua Road in Nantou City.

   2015 March 30, “Magistrate Lin surveyed the county lands to increase county revenue by using them wisely”, in Nantou County Government, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022

   To settle in Taiwan and earn his living, he opened a ramen restaurant in Chichi Township (集集), a popular tourist destination in Nantou, where a multitude of temples are located, he said.

   2015 June 16, Ping-chuan Liu, Chen Feng-li, Chen Wei-han, “Japanese chef searches for missing wife”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2015, Taiwan News, page 5