chic

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Elegant, stylish.

   • Mrs. Hominy, sir, is the lady of Major Hominy, one of our chicest spirits; and belongs Toe^([sic]) one of our most aristocratic families.
   • As he wisht to micks with the very chicest sosaity, and git the best of infmation about this country, Munseer Jools of coarse went and lodgd in Lester Square— […]
2. 2

   Good form

   Good form; style.

   • A little pear-grey glove, dropped and abandoned on the floor, may give its owner's sex and chic to the whole room; whilst an entire house-full of so-called womanly trifles will have only a neuter flavour about them, if chic be not there.
   • You can be assured that whatever article of wearable chic you pick-up at this Newbury St. shop, you will not see it walking up and down the streets a hundred times.
   • [T]he macabre, when celebrated with the panache of a new range of retailed products, became a glib manifestation of chic: […]
3. 3

   A person with (a particular type of) chic.

   • The potheads were either smoking or eating or giggling or some combination of the three. The heroin chics were nodding out.
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   1. 4

      A kind of ritual buffoon or clown in Yucatec Maya culture.

      • the chics of Dzitas, Yucatán, if they caught a small boy, removed his clothes and rubbed gunpowder in his anus. In the Yucatec barrio of “Santiago,” the chics amuse crowds by lassoing men and fining them
      • Along with them came a man of the village known for his humorous antics; he was called the chic. Riding atop the cut tree, the chic danced and performed for the people as the procession made its way back to the village.
   2. 5

      A diminutive of the male given name Charles.

The neighborhood

• antonymdowdy
• antonyminelegant
• antonymunelegant
• antonymunchic
• antonymunfashionable
• antonymunstylish