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chichi

[ shee-shee ]

adjective

  1. showily or affectedly elegant or trendy; pretentious.

    Synonyms: flamboyant, ostentatious, flashy



noun

  1. a chichi person or thing.
  2. the quality of being chichi.

chichi

1

/ ˈʃiːˌʃiː /

adjective

  1. affectedly pretty or stylish


noun

  1. the quality of being affectedly pretty or stylish

chichi

2

/ ˈtʃiːˌtʃiː /

noun

  1. Also (less common)chee-chee
    1. a person of mixed British and Indian descent; Anglo-Indian
    2. ( as modifier )

      a chichi accent

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Word History and Origins

Origin of chichi1

Borrowed into English from French around 1905–10

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Word History and Origins

Origin of chichi1

C20: from French

Origin of chichi2

C18: perhaps from Hindi chhī-chhī, literally: dirt, or perhaps imitative of their supposed singsong speech

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Example Sentences

There are a lot of chichi restaurants claiming to be “farm-to-table” these days.

Their flash and trash made sense in LA—hulking hairdos, blinding bling, chichi couture, froufrou wheels, rococoocoo estates, etc.

The people eat dead pigs, and drink a white, thick fluid called chichi, which they squeeze out of the body of a large animal.

Chichi was only a girl now, but later on she would thank her for having collected all these gems for her.

Rene, his only son, had succeeded in awakening in Chichi a certain interest that was almost love.

With Chichi beside her, she greeted those she knew, congratulating the bride and groom.

He and his sister Chichi had from childhood felt an instinctive hostility toward the cousins from Berlin.

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