chichi
/ˈʃi.ʃi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Jiji.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "But if the mix is no longer about life's essentials, and instead a new wave of chichi cafés, artisan bakers and fancy nail bars—are we right to ask, not how useful is your high street, but how bougie?"
Etymology
Borrowed from French chichi.
Word Breakdown
- Root: -
Usage
Inflected Forms
more chichi (comparative)
most chichi (superlative)
chi-chi (alternative)
chi chi (alternative)
shi-shi (alternative)
shi shi (alternative)
chichis (plural)