chic | (adjective) elegant and stylish | Synonyms: smart, voguish |
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(noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
chicane | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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(noun) a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file | - |
(noun) a bridge hand that is void of trumps | - |
(verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, cavil |
(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
chicanery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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chicha | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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chichi | (adjective) affectedly trendy and fashionable | - |
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(noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
(noun) someone who dresses in a trendy fashionable way | - |
chichipe | (noun) tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit | Synonyms: Lemaireocereus chichipe |
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chick | (noun) young bird especially of domestic fowl | Synonyms: biddy |
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(noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, dame, doll, skirt, wench |
chickadee | (noun) any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America | - |
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chicken | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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(noun) a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: Gallus gallus |
(noun) a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops | - |
(noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: poulet, volaille |
(noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: crybaby, wimp |
chickenfeed | (noun) a trifling sum of money | Synonyms: chump change, small change |
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chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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chickenhearted | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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chickenpox | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: varicella |
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chickenshit | (noun) a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear | - |
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chickeree | (noun) far western United States counterpart of the red squirrel | Synonyms: Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi |
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chickpea | (noun) large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | Synonyms: garbanzo |
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(noun) Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds | Synonyms: chickpea plant, Cicer arietinum, Egyptian pea |
(noun) the seed of the chickpea plant | Synonyms: garbanzo |
chickweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Stellaria | - |
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(noun) any of various plants related to the common chickweed | Synonyms: clammy chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, mouse ear, mouse eared chickweed |
chicle | (noun) gum-like substance from the sapodilla | Synonyms: chicle gum |
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chicness | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
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chicory | (noun) crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste | Synonyms: curly endive |
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(noun) root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee | Synonyms: chicory root |
(noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory plant, Cichorium intybus, succory |
(noun) the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: chicory root |
chicot | (noun) handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: bonduc, Gymnocladus dioica, Kentucky coffee tree |
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