Chichi

//ˈʃi.ʃi// adj, name, noun, slang

adj, name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A woman's breast. Latin-America, in-plural, slang

    "[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."

  2. 2
    elegance by virtue of being fashionable wordnet
  3. 3
    someone who dresses in a trendy fashionable way wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Affectedly trendy; chic and stylish in a pretentious way. derogatory, mildly

    "Going in gangs to those chichi clubs at Maidenhead."

Adjective
  1. 1
    affectedly trendy and fashionable wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Jiji. alt-of, alternative

    "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."

Synonyms

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affectedarabesquebaroqueblatantbougiebougie

Example

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"Going in gangs to those chichi clubs at Maidenhead."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French chichi.

Etymology 2

From Mexican Spanish chichi.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Mandarin 集集 (Jíjí) Wade–Giles romanization: Chi²-chi².

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