chee chee
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A mixed-race person of British and Eurasian origin and in particular of Anglo-Indian descent.
British usage; Archaic; Countable; Obsolete; Offensive; Slang
Example Sentences
- "Pretty little Looking-Glasses, / Good and cheap for Chee-chee Misses."
- "Chee-chees, blacky-whites, half castes, Anglo-Indians. Midnight's orphans. The Brits hated us for giving human form to their rapacious colonial lust."
- "He is no favourite with the pure native, whose language he speaks as his own in addition to the hybrid minced English (known as chee-chee), which he also employs."
- "There is no doubt that the 'Chee Chee twang,' which becomes so objectionable to every Englishman before he has been long in the East, was originally learned in the convent and the Brothers' school, and will be clung to as firmly as the queer turns of speech learned in the same place."
- "2021 September 8, sesquiotic.com The chi chi I know refers to the sing-song accent of some Anglo-Indian women. Perhaps it’s a term that is now out of date."