chichi

adj

1. (derogatory, mildly)Affectedly trendy; chic and stylish in a pretentious way.

   “Going in gangs to those chichi clubs at Maidenhead.”

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

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

   “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.”

   “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.”

noun

1. (Latin-America, in-plural, slang)A 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.”

   “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.”

name

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative 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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”