Definition of Chich

1. n. The chick-pea.

Definition of Chich

1. Noun. (botany) The chickpea. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chich

1. a chickpea [n -ES] - See also: chickpea

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chich

chicane
chicaned
chicaner
chicaneries
chicaners
chicanery
chicanes
chicaning
chicano
chicanos
chicas
chiccories
chiccory
chicer
chicest
chich (current term)
chicha
chicharrones
chichas
chicheme
chichemes
chiches
chichi
chichier
chichiest
chichipe
chichis
chick
chick flick
chick flicks

Literary usage of Chich

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Missionary Gazetteer: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Account ...by Bela Bates Edwards, Charles Williams by Bela Bates Edwards, Charles Williams (1832)
"... a Malay school, chich was for a time suspended, was :-opened; and a female Malay school, le first establishment of the kind in - Malacca, was commenced. ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1884)
"... chich'ESTER, city of England, IV. 409. chiches- ter cathedral, 1 be (ill.). chichimec« [che-che-meks'J, Mexican tribe, XI. 472, 1 b, ff. ..."

3. The Story of Peter Parley's Own Life by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1863)
"... BRITISH INFLUENCE OLD chich-ES-TEH AUNT DELIGHT RETURN AFTER TWENTY YEARS. MY memory goes distinctly back to the year 1797, when I was four years old. ..."

4. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael (1900)
"... Thoir-sa fois dh' an chich, Cuir-s' an crion an t-at; Thoir-sa fois dh' an chich, Cuir-s' an crion an t-at. ..."

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