chichin.¹adj.

Brit.

/ˈʃiːˌʃiː/, U.S.

/ˈʃiˌʃi/,

/ˈtʃiˌtʃi/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French chichi.

Etymology: < French chichi affected manners (1886 in faire du chichi ), trinkets or knick-knacks collectively (1897), probably a reduplicated form of the base (expressive of smallness) which also underlies chiche miserly, parsimonious (see chinch n.¹ and adj.).Use denoting a short curl of false hair (see sense A. 2) is apparently not found in French until later than in English: 1930 or earlier. Use as adjective is not paralleled in French.

A. n.¹

1. Decorative trimming for clothing; a piece of lace, a ribbon, or a frill. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1897 News of Week 4 Dec. (Saturday Morning ed.) 14/1 If you have a black satin skirt, trim it in pretty designs with black velvet chichi, that is narrow puffing.

1906 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Dec. 87 When you see the chi-chis made up and tacked on the front of your blouse you will see what a pretty finish they make.

1908 Sporting Times 28 Mar. 4/1 Small silk bows, embroidered spots, odd bits of lace sewed on anywhere, are all ‘chichis’.

1948 Pittsburgh Sun-Tel. 27 June (Pict. Review) 4/2 Their clothes-closets contained all the chiffon and taffeta and lace; all the furs and the chi-chi.

2. A short curl of false hair, typically worn by women to hang over the forehead or under the brim of a hat, popular in the early 20th cent. More fully chichi curl. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > practice of wearing artificial hair > [noun] > artificial hair > section or lock of

sidelock1530

lock1601

tour1674

snake1676

front1693

bull-tour1724

back-head1731

ramillies tail1782

frontlet1785

frisette1818

toupee1862

postiche1867

switch1870

pin-curl1873

scalpette1881

wig-tail1888

chichi1906

hairpiece1939

fall1943

toup1959

1906 Daily Mail 20 June 5/4 The cinnamon cachepeigne mingles well with the little ‘chi-chi’ curls that are sold by the posticheurs to fill in the hiatus at the back of the fashionable hat beneath the cachepeigne.

1908 Times of India 27 Jan. 9/4 Instead of wearing chi-chis the smart woman is now threading ribbon through her hair tied in a rather flat bow on the summit of her head.

1958 N.Y. Times 7 Sept. 13 (advt.) Another enchanting little trick—our own chichi curl, 3.00 in the millinery salon.

3. Affected and over-elaborate refinement; an affectation, esp. of behaviour or manner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun]

affectation1548

affection1570

phantastry1656

stilt1735

fal-lal1775

coxcombality1785

meemaw1790

posture-making1797

attitudinarianism1803

attitudinizing1812

piminy1819

stiltishness1824

niminy-piminyism1840

gyvera1866

notion1866

attitudinization1871

effectism1871

jam1882

chichi1908

poncing1969

pseudery1972

1908 Sporting Times 28 Mar. 4/1 Elaborate compliments, or the ‘no’ that means ‘yes’, and vice versâ, are all ‘chichis’.

1933 R. Aldington All Men are Enemies iii. i. 249 He stepped across the path of crazy pavement (a bit of Margaret's upper-suburban chi-chi).

1989 N.Y. Woman Nov. 64/3 Major players huddle here, seeking relief from the relentless chichi of late-Eighties dining.

2018 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 13 Aug. Alternating between scenes of screaming new-money chichi and hush-hush old-money elegance, Crazy Rich Asians seems tailor-made for audiences drawn to the over-the-top spectacle of the Hollywood blockbuster.

4. Fuss, bother.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss

to-doc1330

adoc1380

great (also much) cry and little woolc1460

feery-fary1535

fray1568

stirc1595

do1598

coil1599

hurl1603

ruffle1609

clutterment1611

buzz1628

bustle1637

paddle1642

racket1644

clutter1652

tracas1656

tracasserie1656

circumference1667

flutter1667

hurly-burly1678

fuss1701

fissle1719

fraise1725

hurry-scurry1753

fix-fax1768

fal-lal1775

widdle1789

touse1792

fuffle1801

going-on1817

hurry and scurry1823

sputter1823

tew1825

Bob's-a-dying1829

fidge1832

tamasha1842

mulling1845

mussing1846

fettling1847

fooster1847

trade1854

scrimmage1855

carry-on1861

fuss-and-feathers1866

on-carry1870

make-a-do1880

miration1883

razzle-dazzle1885

song and dance1885

to get a rustle on1891

tea-party1903

stirabout1905

whoop-de-do1910

chichi1928

production1941

go-go1966

1928 W. S. Maugham Ashenden xii. 236 The managers won't be too pleased with me if I make a lot of chichi.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 226 It manages to deal with a modern emotional subject without chi-chi, false sentiment or mechanical romanticism.

1963 R. Croft-Cooke Bosie 285 There was much chi-chi about reading out this heading in court.

1996 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 277/1 I'm a V.I.P. They bring me to the plane. They make a lot of chichi.

B. adj.

Affected or excessively refined; fancy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of simplicity > [adjective] > over-elaborate

finical1592

niggling1813

finicking1831

rococo1844

chichi1926

foofy1984

1926 New Yorker 25 Sept. 48/1 Jay Thorpe is showing with pride its exclusive Mignon underwear that is quite, quite chichi.

1930 B. Hall Mod. Conversat. 263 As an adjective it means ‘affected’ or ‘gaily insincere’. ‘His house is very chi-chi,—he has a negro butler with peroxide hair, wax flowers, and his bathroom has a whole flock of love-birds in it sitting on perches and twittering.’

1932 N. Mitford Christmas Pudding xiv. 208 A pair of gold hair-brushes, rather chi-chi, but very attractive all the same.

1986 R. B. Parker Taming Sea-horse xv. 97 The Old Post Exchange was urban renewal at its chichiest.

2018 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Oct. A property on one of its [sc. Esher's] chichi private roads, popular with entertainers or footballers, could cost several million.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

chichin.²

Brit.

/ˈtʃiːtʃi/, U.S.

/ˈtʃitʃi/

Forms: 1900s– chi-chi, 1900s– chee-chee, 1900s– chichi.

Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese chichi.

Etymology: < Japanese chichi breast (1694 or earlier), milk (1700 or earlier), reduplication of chi , in the same senses (1603 in Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam; 8th cent. as ti breast, teat), perhaps ultimately imitative of the sound of sucking (compare tit n.¹).The English word is also attested in regional use in Hawaii, which may have helped it to pass into wider use. Some later uses in English are perhaps also reinforced by the unrelated Mexican Spanish (slang) chichi breast (1818 with reference to a baby being suckled), perhaps ultimately < Nahuatl; compare Nahuatl chīchī to suckle (see Chichimeca n.), chīchīhualli breast, perhaps of a similar imitative origin.

U.S. colloquial (originally Military slang).

Usually in plural: a woman's breasts. Also occasionally in singular: a breast.In quot. 1961 (in singular): a woman's bosom.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun]

titOE

breastOE

mammaOE

pysea1400

mamellec1450

dug1530

duckya1533

bag1579

pommela1586

mam1611

Milky Way1622

bubby?1660

udder1702

globea1727

fore-buttock1727

tetty1746

breastwork?1760

diddy1788

snows1803

sweets1817

titty1865

pappy1869

Charleys1874

bub1881

breastiec1900

ninny1909

pair1919

boobs1932

boobya1934

fun bag1938

maraca1940

knockers1941

can1946

mammaries1947

bazooms1955

jug1957

melon1957

bosoms1959

Bristols1961

chichi1961

nork1962

puppies1963

rack1968

knob1970

dingleberry1980

jubblies1991

1961 A. R. Bosworth Crows Edwina Hill vi. 90 The blushing process started somewhere down in that entrancing area half concealed and half disclosed by her low-necked evening gown—it began in her chichi, the crew of the Bustard would have said.

1990 S. Morgan Homeboy ii. 20 Still astride him after sex.., she laughed: ‘Big ass and chichis is all you love’.

2013 @Natster246 14 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) One time I forgot to wear my bra to work. Luckily I dont have very big chichis.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	chichi
释义	chichin.¹adj. Brit. /ˈʃiːˌʃiː/, U.S. /ˈʃiˌʃi/, /ˈtʃiˌtʃi/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French chichi. Etymology: < French chichi affected manners (1886 in faire du chichi ), trinkets or knick-knacks collectively (1897), probably a reduplicated form of the base (expressive of smallness) which also underlies chiche miserly, parsimonious (see chinch n.¹ and adj.).Use denoting a short curl of false hair (see sense A. 2) is apparently not found in French until later than in English: 1930 or earlier. Use as adjective is not paralleled in French. A. n.¹ 1. Decorative trimming for clothing; a piece of lace, a ribbon, or a frill. Now rare. ΚΠ 1897 News of Week 4 Dec. (Saturday Morning ed.) 14/1 If you have a black satin skirt, trim it in pretty designs with black velvet chichi, that is narrow puffing. 1906 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Dec. 87 When you see the chi-chis made up and tacked on the front of your blouse you will see what a pretty finish they make. 1908 Sporting Times 28 Mar. 4/1 Small silk bows, embroidered spots, odd bits of lace sewed on anywhere, are all ‘chichis’. 1948 Pittsburgh Sun-Tel. 27 June (Pict. Review) 4/2 Their clothes-closets contained all the chiffon and taffeta and lace; all the furs and the chi-chi. 2. A short curl of false hair, typically worn by women to hang over the forehead or under the brim of a hat, popular in the early 20th cent. More fully chichi curl. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > practice of wearing artificial hair > [noun] > artificial hair > section or lock of sidelock1530 lock1601 tour1674 snake1676 front1693 bull-tour1724 back-head1731 ramillies tail1782 frontlet1785 frisette1818 toupee1862 postiche1867 switch1870 pin-curl1873 scalpette1881 wig-tail1888 chichi1906 hairpiece1939 fall1943 toup1959 1906 Daily Mail 20 June 5/4 The cinnamon cachepeigne mingles well with the little ‘chi-chi’ curls that are sold by the posticheurs to fill in the hiatus at the back of the fashionable hat beneath the cachepeigne. 1908 Times of India 27 Jan. 9/4 Instead of wearing chi-chis the smart woman is now threading ribbon through her hair tied in a rather flat bow on the summit of her head. 1958 N.Y. Times 7 Sept. 13 (advt.) Another enchanting little trick—our own chichi curl, 3.00 in the millinery salon. 3. Affected and over-elaborate refinement; an affectation, esp. of behaviour or manner. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] affectation1548 affection1570 phantastry1656 stilt1735 fal-lal1775 coxcombality1785 meemaw1790 posture-making1797 attitudinarianism1803 attitudinizing1812 piminy1819 stiltishness1824 niminy-piminyism1840 gyvera1866 notion1866 attitudinization1871 effectism1871 jam1882 chichi1908 poncing1969 pseudery1972 1908 Sporting Times 28 Mar. 4/1 Elaborate compliments, or the ‘no’ that means ‘yes’, and vice versâ, are all ‘chichis’. 1933 R. Aldington All Men are Enemies iii. i. 249 He stepped across the path of crazy pavement (a bit of Margaret's upper-suburban chi-chi). 1989 N.Y. Woman Nov. 64/3 Major players huddle here, seeking relief from the relentless chichi of late-Eighties dining. 2018 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 13 Aug. Alternating between scenes of screaming new-money chichi and hush-hush old-money elegance, Crazy Rich Asians seems tailor-made for audiences drawn to the over-the-top spectacle of the Hollywood blockbuster. 4. Fuss, bother. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss to-doc1330 adoc1380 great (also much) cry and little woolc1460 feery-fary1535 fray1568 stirc1595 do1598 coil1599 hurl1603 ruffle1609 clutterment1611 buzz1628 bustle1637 paddle1642 racket1644 clutter1652 tracas1656 tracasserie1656 circumference1667 flutter1667 hurly-burly1678 fuss1701 fissle1719 fraise1725 hurry-scurry1753 fix-fax1768 fal-lal1775 widdle1789 touse1792 fuffle1801 going-on1817 hurry and scurry1823 sputter1823 tew1825 Bob's-a-dying1829 fidge1832 tamasha1842 mulling1845 mussing1846 fettling1847 fooster1847 trade1854 scrimmage1855 carry-on1861 fuss-and-feathers1866 on-carry1870 make-a-do1880 miration1883 razzle-dazzle1885 song and dance1885 to get a rustle on1891 tea-party1903 stirabout1905 whoop-de-do1910 chichi1928 production1941 go-go1966 1928 W. S. Maugham Ashenden xii. 236 The managers won't be too pleased with me if I make a lot of chichi. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 226 It manages to deal with a modern emotional subject without chi-chi, false sentiment or mechanical romanticism. 1963 R. Croft-Cooke Bosie 285 There was much chi-chi about reading out this heading in court. 1996 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 277/1 I'm a V.I.P. They bring me to the plane. They make a lot of chichi. B. adj. Affected or excessively refined; fancy. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of simplicity > [adjective] > over-elaborate finical1592 niggling1813 finicking1831 rococo1844 chichi1926 foofy1984 1926 New Yorker 25 Sept. 48/1 Jay Thorpe is showing with pride its exclusive Mignon underwear that is quite, quite chichi. 1930 B. Hall Mod. Conversat. 263 As an adjective it means ‘affected’ or ‘gaily insincere’. ‘His house is very chi-chi,—he has a negro butler with peroxide hair, wax flowers, and his bathroom has a whole flock of love-birds in it sitting on perches and twittering.’ 1932 N. Mitford Christmas Pudding xiv. 208 A pair of gold hair-brushes, rather chi-chi, but very attractive all the same. 1986 R. B. Parker Taming Sea-horse xv. 97 The Old Post Exchange was urban renewal at its chichiest. 2018 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Oct. A property on one of its [sc. Esher's] chichi private roads, popular with entertainers or footballers, could cost several million. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). chichin.² Brit. /ˈtʃiːtʃi/, U.S. /ˈtʃitʃi/ Forms: 1900s– chi-chi, 1900s– chee-chee, 1900s– chichi. Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese chichi. Etymology: < Japanese chichi breast (1694 or earlier), milk (1700 or earlier), reduplication of chi , in the same senses (1603 in Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam; 8th cent. as ti breast, teat), perhaps ultimately imitative of the sound of sucking (compare tit n.¹).The English word is also attested in regional use in Hawaii, which may have helped it to pass into wider use. Some later uses in English are perhaps also reinforced by the unrelated Mexican Spanish (slang) chichi breast (1818 with reference to a baby being suckled), perhaps ultimately < Nahuatl; compare Nahuatl chīchī to suckle (see Chichimeca n.), chīchīhualli breast, perhaps of a similar imitative origin. U.S. colloquial (originally Military slang). Usually in plural: a woman's breasts. Also occasionally in singular: a breast.In quot. 1961 (in singular): a woman's bosom. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] titOE breastOE mammaOE pysea1400 mamellec1450 dug1530 duckya1533 bag1579 pommela1586 mam1611 Milky Way1622 bubby?1660 udder1702 globea1727 fore-buttock1727 tetty1746 breastwork?1760 diddy1788 snows1803 sweets1817 titty1865 pappy1869 Charleys1874 bub1881 breastiec1900 ninny1909 pair1919 boobs1932 boobya1934 fun bag1938 maraca1940 knockers1941 can1946 mammaries1947 bazooms1955 jug1957 melon1957 bosoms1959 Bristols1961 chichi1961 nork1962 puppies1963 rack1968 knob1970 dingleberry1980 jubblies1991 1961 A. R. Bosworth Crows Edwina Hill vi. 90 The blushing process started somewhere down in that entrancing area half concealed and half disclosed by her low-necked evening gown—it began in her chichi, the crew of the Bustard would have said. 1990 S. Morgan Homeboy ii. 20 Still astride him after sex.., she laughed: ‘Big ass and chichis is all you love’. 2013 @Natster246 14 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) One time I forgot to wear my bra to work. Luckily I dont have very big chichis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹adj.1897n.²1961
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