- 1時髦、有品味（俐落、不花俏；時尚圈也直接說 chic）
If a person, a room, or a piece of clothing is chic, it looks very fashionable and rather expensive, and it shows a good eye for what is attractive. The look is clean and knowing, not loud and not messy — as if someone chose well and then stopped. A simple black dress, a haircut, a small hotel, even a city (people say Paris is chic) can take the word. English borrowed it from French, and it still feels a little French in the mouth, which is part of why fashion writing likes it. You can also use it as a noun for that quality: she has chic, French chic. It is a compliment. Though actually, speakers stretch it: a café with nice lamps may be called chic when it is only tidy, and something cheap can still look chic if the eye is right. Younger everyday speech often prefers cool or stylish; chic lives in magazines, design talk, and anywhere looks are being judged.
組成Borrowed from French chic (“elegant”), which in turn is probably borrowed from German Schick (“elegant appearance; tasteful presentation”). Far back it is related to Dutch schielijk (“hasty”), schikken (“to arrange”), and Old English sċēon (“to happen”), but those are ancestor notes, not English cousins to learn with it.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Chicname
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A diminutive of the male given name Charles.
chicadj詞源 1/ʃiːk/
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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— […]
chicnoun詞源 1/ʃiːk/
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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.
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A person with (a particular type of) chic.
- It was probably fortunate for him [Bernard Lazare] that the police, who started keeping a fairly regular watch on his activities in April 1893, also inclined towards thinking that he was merely following the fashion of other young ‘bourgeois chics’ (though at times they evidently had second thoughts).
- Striving for admission in those exclusive circles so as to gain higher social recognition and acceptance by the chics, anthropologists who were already subservient to other philosophical musings such as hermeneutics and phenomenology, started to upgrade their language and to treat cultures as "texts".
chicnoun詞源 2
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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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。