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chinkerinchee S. Afr.|ˌtʃɪŋkərɪnˈtʃiː|
Also chincherinchee, chinkerichee, chinkeringching.
[Said to be onomatopœic, from the squeaky sound produced when two flower-stalks are rubbed together.]
A popular name for the liliaceous bulbous plant Ornithogalum thyrsoides, bearing white to golden-yellow flowers in a dense 12- to 30-flowered raceme.
[1793tr. Thunberg's Trav. 1770–9 I. 153 Tintirinties is a name given to a species of Ornithogalum, with a white flower, from the sound it produced, when two stalks of it were rubbed against each other.] 1904Cape G. Hope Agric. Jrnl. July 6 (Pettman), The Chinkerinchee, Chincher-and-ching, ‘Viooltjes’, as that beautiful white flowering bulb, the Ornithogalum thyrsoides, is variously called in South Africa. 1913C. Pettman Africanderisms 120 Chinkering ching, Ornithogalum thyrsoides. The popular name of this plant in the Western Province. 1915Marloth Flora S. Afr. IV. 106 The best known species is O. thyrsoides, called the star of Bethlehem, but more familiar as viooltje or chinkerichee. 1923Daily Mail 3 Dec., The South African flower the chinkerichee. 1926A. H. Hamer Wild Flowers of Cape, Key List of Flowers..Chincherinchees (Ornithogalum). 1942Amer. Speech XVII. 66/2 For some years now the catalogs of dealers in bulbs have admonished us that a recognized American name for the flowering bulb Ornithogalum is chinkerichee (as I saw it first) or chincherichee (as I see it nowadays). 1949M. Masson Narrowing Lust xiii. 129 Even the creamy Chincherinchee glowed with a depth of colour that accentuated its whiteness and made it striking. 1959Times 7 Mar. 1/7, 25 Chincherinchees 10s. |