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Chich

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Chich
    (Bot) The chick-pea.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) chich
    A dwarf pea: same as chick-pea.
  2. chich
    Niggardly; sparing.
  3. (n) chich
    A miser; a niggard.
  4. chich
    To chuck; cluck, as a hen.
  5. chich
    To call by clucking, as a hen her young.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Chich
    chich a dwarf pea, Same as Chick-pea.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. chiche, pois chiche, a dwarf pea, from L. cicer, the chick-pea

Usage in literature

But at the end he got Mr. Chichely to take his place, and left the room. "Middlemarch" by George Eliot

Here I was in pain to be seen, and hid myself; but, as God would have it, Sir John Chichly come, and sat just by me. "Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1666" by Samuel Pepys

Associated Words: bovine, Bos, moo, low, lowing, farrow, beef, neat, moolley, vachery, chiche-vache, milch. "Putnam's Word Book" by Louis A. Flemming

In 1767 De la Chiche introduced a system of fortification in many respects original. "Elements of Military Art and Science" by Henry Wager Halleck

In winter, Roots, Cabbage, Poix chiches, Vermicelli at any time. "The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened" by Kenelm Digby

She didna say 'chich,' so she 's no English born, and she didna say 'churrrch,' so she 's been oot o' Scotland. "Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers" by Ian Maclaren

They graze and range like other cattle, and eat rice, mustard, chiches, and any cultivated produce, as also chaff and chopped straw. "Delineations of the Ox Tribe" by George Vasey

Fays du chiche (je), 657. "An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly" by Anonymous

It is a question of "chich-bugs," and floods and drouths. "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition--Interviews" by Robert G. Ingersoll