| 释义 |
adjectiveˈʃiːʃiː Attempting stylish elegance but achieving only an over-elaborate pretentiousness. the tiny chi-chi dining room Example sentencesExamples - It seems like every magazine I flip through, every department store ad I notice, and just about every chichi woman I see is going loco over logos.
- During the Stock Show in January I wouldn't have thought twice about seeing someone dressed in such a fashion standing in a chichi grocery store.
- Knowing that Gwen is tall made it easy to spot her as I breezed through the chichi lobby.
- For a visit to luxury land, time travel back to the glorious age of Art Deco in this chichi restaurant that overlooks the lush lobby of Hotel de la Montagne.
- I'd been at a party for the Puerto Rico delegation at a chichi Boston club earlier in the evening, which featured a live band, lots of dancing and a buffet of Puerto Rican food.
- Despite their rather chichi digs, Kingsley leaves early each morning to dig ditches and run a convenience store - menial, undignified tasks.
- He abhors ‘extremely clever chichi writing’; language needs to be ‘clear and specific’, ‘with the punctuation in the right places’.
- Yet the overall atmosphere of San Miguel is not remotely of a chichi American town, nor even is it as spruce as neighbouring colonial cities.
- Yesterday when I brought out a platter of fancy cheeses, chichi crackers, and sliced pears for dessert R. was both astonished and delighted.
- Various chichi chefs, meanwhile, join in claims that biotech fish are too unnatural for their clientele.
- For weeks, locals have been peering through the windows of Restaurant Bernard, trying to figure out just what this chichi eatery/bar is doing in such a low-key location.
- A dinner at a really chichi place and an opportunity to see what else was out there is all he wanted.
- Belgian influences, on the other had, are confined to a couple of avant-garde fashion designers and a few chichi restaurants in New York, so this is likely to remain a fad.
- A $7,000 titanium mountain bike with a smart suspension design and gobs of chichi parts is going to ride, well, flawlessly.
- The Duro factory churns out chichi paper bags, sold for a buck at the ubiquitous gift shops that dot suburban shopping malls almost everywhere north of the border.
- Whereas other top hotels err on the chichi side, this one, opened in November 1998, is more pared-down, using natural materials with a flow of water, space and light, and an earthy colour scheme inspired by spices.
- I have 6 or 7 books to read, a shady tree to sit under, great company, and it turns out that Saint-Remy is like the Hampstead of Provence; more chichi shops and restaurants than we'll get through in a week.
- Intrepid shoppers know that it's possible to land a bargain anywhere, even in one of Madison Avenue's most chichi boutiques.
- This arcane coffee drink was once the stuff of mystery, to be found only in chichi Italian restaurants, formulated by cagey old waiters wrestling with giant copper kettles that hissed like contemptuous dragons.
- An innocuous ruin such as this could be a real moneymaker if planning permission was secured to turn it into a small development of chichi apartments.
Synonyms affected, ostentatious, chichi, showy, flashy, tinselly, conspicuous, flaunty, tasteless, kitschy
nounˈʃiːʃiː mass nounPretentious and over-elaborate refinement. a good restaurant without the chi-chi traditionally associated with French food Example sentencesExamples - ‘In the eyes of the world, Paris is a very beautiful city, a romantic, sexy city, but when you come here now it is still romantic and still very beautiful, but it has lost some of its chichi with women,’ he said.
- Their new credo: you can be first class and cook with a highly personal style even ‘without chichi and tralala’.
Synonyms ostentation, ornamentation, decoration, embellishment, fanciness, fuss, chichi, garnishing, garnishment, gilding, excess
OriginEarly 20th century (in the sense 'showiness or pretentious object'): from French, of imitative origin. nounˈʃiːʃiːˈtʃiˌtʃi US vulgar slang Origin1960s: military slang, of Japanese origin. adjectiveˈSHēSHē Attempting stylish elegance but achieving only an overelaborate pretentiousness. the chi-chi world of Manhattan cultural privilege Example sentencesExamples - The Duro factory churns out chichi paper bags, sold for a buck at the ubiquitous gift shops that dot suburban shopping malls almost everywhere north of the border.
- An innocuous ruin such as this could be a real moneymaker if planning permission was secured to turn it into a small development of chichi apartments.
- Whereas other top hotels err on the chichi side, this one, opened in November 1998, is more pared-down, using natural materials with a flow of water, space and light, and an earthy colour scheme inspired by spices.
- Various chichi chefs, meanwhile, join in claims that biotech fish are too unnatural for their clientele.
- I'd been at a party for the Puerto Rico delegation at a chichi Boston club earlier in the evening, which featured a live band, lots of dancing and a buffet of Puerto Rican food.
- I have 6 or 7 books to read, a shady tree to sit under, great company, and it turns out that Saint-Remy is like the Hampstead of Provence; more chichi shops and restaurants than we'll get through in a week.
- Yet the overall atmosphere of San Miguel is not remotely of a chichi American town, nor even is it as spruce as neighbouring colonial cities.
- Yesterday when I brought out a platter of fancy cheeses, chichi crackers, and sliced pears for dessert R. was both astonished and delighted.
- A dinner at a really chichi place and an opportunity to see what else was out there is all he wanted.
- For weeks, locals have been peering through the windows of Restaurant Bernard, trying to figure out just what this chichi eatery/bar is doing in such a low-key location.
- It seems like every magazine I flip through, every department store ad I notice, and just about every chichi woman I see is going loco over logos.
- This arcane coffee drink was once the stuff of mystery, to be found only in chichi Italian restaurants, formulated by cagey old waiters wrestling with giant copper kettles that hissed like contemptuous dragons.
- A $7,000 titanium mountain bike with a smart suspension design and gobs of chichi parts is going to ride, well, flawlessly.
- Intrepid shoppers know that it's possible to land a bargain anywhere, even in one of Madison Avenue's most chichi boutiques.
- Despite their rather chichi digs, Kingsley leaves early each morning to dig ditches and run a convenience store - menial, undignified tasks.
- He abhors ‘extremely clever chichi writing’; language needs to be ‘clear and specific’, ‘with the punctuation in the right places’.
- Knowing that Gwen is tall made it easy to spot her as I breezed through the chichi lobby.
- For a visit to luxury land, time travel back to the glorious age of Art Deco in this chichi restaurant that overlooks the lush lobby of Hotel de la Montagne.
- During the Stock Show in January I wouldn't have thought twice about seeing someone dressed in such a fashion standing in a chichi grocery store.
- Belgian influences, on the other had, are confined to a couple of avant-garde fashion designers and a few chichi restaurants in New York, so this is likely to remain a fad.
Synonyms affected, ostentatious, chichi, showy, flashy, tinselly, conspicuous, flaunty, tasteless, kitschy
nounˈSHēSHē Pretentious and overelaborate refinement. the relentless chi-chi of late-eighties dining Example sentencesExamples - Their new credo: you can be first class and cook with a highly personal style even ‘without chichi and tralala’.
- ‘In the eyes of the world, Paris is a very beautiful city, a romantic, sexy city, but when you come here now it is still romantic and still very beautiful, but it has lost some of its chichi with women,’ he said.
Synonyms ostentation, ornamentation, decoration, embellishment, fanciness, fuss, chichi, garnishing, garnishment, gilding, excess
OriginEarly 20th century (in the sense ‘showiness or pretentious object’): from French, of imitative origin. nounˈCHēˌCHēˈtʃiˌtʃi US vulgar slang Origin1960s: military slang, of Japanese origin. |