chichi

Borrowed from French chichi

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.ʃi/

chichi (comparative more chichi, superlative most chichi)

1. affectedly trendy; chic and stylish
   • E. Taylor, Game of Hide-&-Seek

     Going in gangs to those chichi clubs at Maidenhead.

   • 1969, January 22, Daily Telegraph

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

• bougie
• bourgie

From the Spanish (meaning "vulva"): onomatopoeia, variant of chocho.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃi.tʃi/

chichi (plural chichis)

1. (slang, Latin America, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
   • 2011, Barbara Samuel, The Girls in the Basement: Celebration Book

     [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.

   • 2014, Stephen May, Wake Up Happy Every Day

     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.

From French chichi.

chichi

1. fringe; tassel

chichi

1. dog.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃi.tʃi/

chichi (animate)

1. Dog.

• Medina, Genaro. (1999) Curso de Nahuatl, University of Americas, Cholula, Puebla p. 88.

chichi

1. chili

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃi.tʃi/

chichi (absolutive plural chichimeh)

1. dog (both male and female)
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 194v

     Perro o perra. chichi. ytzcuintli.

   • 1571: Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 95r. col. 2.

     Perro o perra. chichi. ytzcuintli.

     (Dog or bitch. chichi. ytzcuintli.)

   • 1571: Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 19v. col. 2.

     Chichi.perro,o perra.

     (Chichi. a dog or a bitch.)

• itzcuīntli

• chichitōn
• chichiyōtl
• tlālchichi

• Spanish: chichi

• chihchi

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 215
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 47
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 214

• chi̱chi (Mecayapan and Tatahuicapan)

• IPA^(key): /tʃiːtʃi/ (Mecayapan and Tatahuicapan)

chichi

1. (intransitive) To suckle.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 162r

     Mamar. ni,chichi.

• chichihualli

• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 47
• Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz‎, 2nd electronic ed., Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 38, 244

Cognate to Classical Nahuatl chichi

chichi (plural chichime)

1. dog.

Probably related to chiche with a sense of "small thing"

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.ʃi/

chichi m (plural chichis)

1. affected manners, demanding behaviour

   Faire des chichis à propos de rien...

2. something showy

   les Américains, qui s'apprêtent à prendre la succession de la civilisation, n'en sont encore au stade que du faux luxe et du brillant et du chichi des empaquetages en papier de cellophane. (Blaise Cendrars, Bourlinguer, 1948)

3. sort of fritter, churro

• chichiteux

chichi (plural chichis)

1. chichi

   Je ne connais pas une fille plus apprêtée, plus chichi, plus maniérée. (Sacha Guitry, Le Veilleur de nuit, 1911)

• “chichi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• “chichi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

chichi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ちち

chichi m (plural chichis)

1. Alternative spelling of xixi

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃi/

chichi m (plural chichis)

1. (vulgar) pussy; cunt (vulva)

From Nahuatl chichi (“suckle”)

• chichí

chichi m (plural chichis)

1. (Panama) baby
2. (Honduras, colloquial) kid
3. (colloquial, Mexico, often in the plural) boob (breast)

   Synonym: teta

Cognate to Portuguese xixi

• chichí

chichi m (plural chichis)

1. (Latin America, childish) pee

• pichí
• pipí