chicadj.n.

Brit.

/ʃiːk/, U.S.

/ʃik/

Forms: 1800s–1900s chique, 1800s– chic, 1800s– chick (nonstandard).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French chic.

Etymology: < French chic, †chique (noun) relaxed manner (1793), subtlety, refinement (1823), (in the fine arts) imagination used in the production of artwork (1832), elegance (1835), (adjective) elegant, sophisticated (although this is first attested later than in English: 1842) < German regional (southern, especially Switzerland) Schick tact, skill, know-how (15th cent.) < schicken to cause to happen, to dispose, to prepare, (now usually) to send (Middle High German schicken), cognate with Middle Dutch scicken (Dutch schikken) and Middle Low German schicken, in similar senses.The Germanic verbs are probably causative formations < the Germanic base of Old English scēon to happen (usually prefixed as gescēon (compare y- prefix); also unprefixed in an isolated attestation in the sense ‘to move quickly’), Old Frisian skiā to happen, Old High German skehan to happen (usually in prefixed forms; Middle High German schehen to run, to hurry; also (chiefly in prefixed form as geschehen) to happen; German geschehen to happen) < an ablaut variant of the Indo-European base of Old Church Slavonic skočiti, skakati to jump, Early Irish scuchaid, scuichid moves, goes, Welsh ysgogi to move, budge.

A. adj.

Stylishly elegant and sophisticated, esp. in dress, taste, or manner.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > smart

gallantc1420

galliard1513

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pink1598

genteel1601

sparkful1605

sparkish1657

jaunty1662

spankinga1666

shanty1685

trig1725

smartish1738

distinguished1748

nobby1788

dashing1801

vaudy1805

swell1810

distingué1813

dashy1822

nutty1823

chic1832

slicked1836

flash1838

rakish1840

spiffy1853

smart1860

sassy1861

classy1870

spiffing1872

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tony1877

swish1879

hep1899

toffy1901

hip1904

toppy1905

in1906

floozy1911

swank1913

jazz1917

ritzy1919

smooth1920

snappy1925

snazzy1931

groovy1937

what ho1937

gussy1940

criss1954

high camp1954

sprauncy1957

James Bondish1966

James Bond1967

schmick1972

designer1978

atas1993

as fine as fivepence-

1832 Let. 6 Feb. in Atlantic Monthly (1887) 433/2 You eat breakfast at noon, take brandy in your coffee, and are cultivating a liking for frogs' legs…Such proceedings may be all very—what you call ‘chic’. I will not ask what that means.

1870 tr. N. Roqueplan in London Society July 14/1 The Jockey Club is so extremely chic, that many people consider the fact of belonging to it not as an ordinary circumstance, but as a dignity.

1915 Vanity Fair Sept. 88/1 A chic little woman with glossy white hair and rosy cheeks.

1971 Homes & Gardens Aug. 73 The chic-est way to wear them is beneath a slit skirt.

2015 New Yorker 23 Mar. 48/3 I was in Morocco this summer, and the chicest look was the white Birkenstock..and Versace glasses.

2018 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Oct. (Late Final ed.) 12 These chic, shorter dresses, ranging from flirty minis to elegant tea-lengths.

B. n.

1. In the fine arts: (the use of) the imagination as the source from which artwork is produced, as distinguished from working from life. Also: guidelines (rather than natural artistic ability) followed in the production of lifelike artwork (sometimes depreciative). Frequently in from chic (cf. from life at life n. 7).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > in specific manner

monogram1610

description1655

manu-tract1660

eye-draft1695

outline1735

eye-sketch1757

scribble1824

monography1828

technical drawing1831

chic1844

reversion1848

outline drawing1850

life drawing1867

1844 Art-union July 161/1 The picture is..curious and not strictly natural, for here M. Gudin displays rather his power in chique than his knowledge of nature.

1888 Sat. Rev. 21 Apr. 473/1 The Continental Gallery..remains a far from dull lounging-place, where, for the most part, gay pictures with a story or amazing efforts of ‘chic’ abound.

1889 W. D. Howells Hazard New Fortunes I. ii. iv. 169 Even when they have talent they've got too much against them. Where a girl doesn't seem very strong..no amount of chic is going to help.

1921 E. J. Sullivan Art of Illustr. xv. 105 A drawing obviously made from ‘chic’, where any trick is resorted to in order to cover up the flimsiness of the construction, is hardly more distressing than the conscientious product which makes a display of laborious..copying of a pose from which all life has evaporated.

1989 Q. Bell Bad Art 118 We draw from ‘chic’—placing the pupils of eyes above the corners of the mouth, the lobe of the ear on a level with the nostril and so on.

a. Sophisticated stylishness and elegance, esp. in dress, taste, or manner.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > attractive or impressive quality > [noun]

accomplishment1586

chic1851

style1967

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistic treatment or style > types of

grotesque1561

charging1569

gusto1662

grand manner1695

manner1706

flatnessa1719

style1801

low key1803

mannerism1803

daguerreotype1850

chic1851

conventionalization1880

Louis Philippe1908

stylization1908

convention1926

historicism1939

pop1958

1851 Dollar Mag. Aug. 79/2 There is no style or chique in anything that he does.

1877 R. H. Roberts Harry Holbrooke of Holbrooke Hall i. 16 There is an air of chic and high tone about him.

1932 Western Gaz. 1 Jan. 11/4 The tie should be knotted round the throat, without a collar. It is just added to give a touch of chic.

2007 Financial Times 17 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 6/6 The grain gives the shoe a certain chic not usually associated with cap-toed Oxfords.

2018 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 11 Aug. 6 Style icon Audrey Hepburn..joined forces with Givenchy and a new kind of chic emerged.

b. As the second element in compounds: the style or look associated with a specified lifestyle or subculture (now esp. one which might seem unlikely as a source of inspiration) regarded or appropriated as fashion.For more established compounds, as eco-chic, geek chic, heroin chic, radical chic, etc., see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > a particular fashion

cut1578

trink?1578

chic1970

1970 S. Krim Shake it for World, Smartass 186 The New Yorker..fluffed the challenge of imaginatively redefining its purpose..stretching its now rubber conscience to include tokens of radical chic and impressiveness on top but not at the bottom where it counts.

1987 I. Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings i. 13 His skull was shaven, deathrow chic, and was so massive and burdened with unassimilated information that it tipped aggressively forward, almost onto his chest.

1991 Elle (U.S. ed.) July 112 With that change comes the fast, free, and uncontrived appeal of biker chic.

2001 Yahoo! Internet Life July 42/4 When major fashion labels started making laptop bags, we knew geek chic was here to stay.

Derivatives

ˈchicness n. the quality of being chic; stylish elegance; fashionableness.

ΚΠ

1885 Life 20 Aug. 110/2 It is light and airy, giving a certain chicness to the figure.

1999 in D. Bolger Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel 103 Her own neat grey suit and white shirt fitted in here quite well..though her brand of chicness had a more modest Irish stamp.

2007 Times 9 May (Suppl.) 7/1 When he dresses down he conveys dynamism and chicness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

chicv.

Brit.

/ʃiːk/, U.S.

/ʃik/

Forms: 1800s chicque, 1800s chique, 1800s– chic.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: chic n., chic adj.

Etymology: Partly < chic n., and partly < chic adj.

1. transitive. In the fine arts: to create (a piece of artwork) using one's imagination or by following guidelines, as distinguished from working from life. Also with up. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 106/1 Among English painters, to chic up a picture, or to do a thing from chic = to work without models and out of one's own head.

1898 H. C. Oakley As having Nothing iv. 68 He knew enough about art to feel..that the work was not chicqued in any particular;..that there must exist, somewhere, a girl who answered so completely to the character which had grown real and dear to him.

1920 W. D. Howells Vacation of Kelwyns viii. 58 She drew with fitful industry under her masters, and chicqued a kind of water-colors, which she knew she had not invented and which she did not wholly respect.

1943 F. H. Eckstorm Let. 20 Feb. in Bull. Mus. Fine Arts (1952) 50 81/2 He painted hands very well and never chic-ed them.

2. transitive. To make (something) stylishly elegant and sophisticated; to render (something) chic. Chiefly with up.

ΚΠ

1919 G. Wood & E. Burbank Art of Interior Decoration xxxi. 272 Interior decoration not infrequently leads to a desire to chic the appearance of one's ‘out-of-doors’.

1998 Independent 25 Feb. 19/5 You can wear casual baggy checked trousers with them [i.e. wooden platform clogs] and they somehow manage to chic it up and make the most masculine of outfits look feminine.

2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 Oct. (Eastern ed.) d4 Kennedy's funny old rocking chair..completely chic-ed up the room by being so quirky and unexpected.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	chic
释义	chicadj.n. Brit. /ʃiːk/, U.S. /ʃik/ Forms: 1800s–1900s chique, 1800s– chic, 1800s– chick (nonstandard). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French chic. Etymology: < French chic, †chique (noun) relaxed manner (1793), subtlety, refinement (1823), (in the fine arts) imagination used in the production of artwork (1832), elegance (1835), (adjective) elegant, sophisticated (although this is first attested later than in English: 1842) < German regional (southern, especially Switzerland) Schick tact, skill, know-how (15th cent.) < schicken to cause to happen, to dispose, to prepare, (now usually) to send (Middle High German schicken), cognate with Middle Dutch scicken (Dutch schikken) and Middle Low German schicken, in similar senses.The Germanic verbs are probably causative formations < the Germanic base of Old English scēon to happen (usually prefixed as gescēon (compare y- prefix); also unprefixed in an isolated attestation in the sense ‘to move quickly’), Old Frisian skiā to happen, Old High German skehan to happen (usually in prefixed forms; Middle High German schehen to run, to hurry; also (chiefly in prefixed form as geschehen) to happen; German geschehen to happen) < an ablaut variant of the Indo-European base of Old Church Slavonic skočiti, skakati to jump, Early Irish scuchaid, scuichid moves, goes, Welsh ysgogi to move, budge. A. adj. Stylishly elegant and sophisticated, esp. in dress, taste, or manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > smart gallantc1420 galliard1513 fine1526 trickly1580 pink1598 genteel1601 sparkful1605 sparkish1657 jaunty1662 spankinga1666 shanty1685 trig1725 smartish1738 distinguished1748 nobby1788 dashing1801 vaudy1805 swell1810 distingué1813 dashy1822 nutty1823 chic1832 slicked1836 flash1838 rakish1840 spiffy1853 smart1860 sassy1861 classy1870 spiffing1872 toffish1873 tony1877 swish1879 hep1899 toffy1901 hip1904 toppy1905 in1906 floozy1911 swank1913 jazz1917 ritzy1919 smooth1920 snappy1925 snazzy1931 groovy1937 what ho1937 gussy1940 criss1954 high camp1954 sprauncy1957 James Bondish1966 James Bond1967 schmick1972 designer1978 atas1993 as fine as fivepence- 1832 Let. 6 Feb. in Atlantic Monthly (1887) 433/2 You eat breakfast at noon, take brandy in your coffee, and are cultivating a liking for frogs' legs…Such proceedings may be all very—what you call ‘chic’. I will not ask what that means. 1870 tr. N. Roqueplan in London Society July 14/1 The Jockey Club is so extremely chic, that many people consider the fact of belonging to it not as an ordinary circumstance, but as a dignity. 1915 Vanity Fair Sept. 88/1 A chic little woman with glossy white hair and rosy cheeks. 1971 Homes & Gardens Aug. 73 The chic-est way to wear them is beneath a slit skirt. 2015 New Yorker 23 Mar. 48/3 I was in Morocco this summer, and the chicest look was the white Birkenstock..and Versace glasses. 2018 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Oct. (Late Final ed.) 12 These chic, shorter dresses, ranging from flirty minis to elegant tea-lengths. B. n. 1. In the fine arts: (the use of) the imagination as the source from which artwork is produced, as distinguished from working from life. Also: guidelines (rather than natural artistic ability) followed in the production of lifelike artwork (sometimes depreciative). Frequently in from chic (cf. from life at life n. 7). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > in specific manner monogram1610 description1655 manu-tract1660 eye-draft1695 outline1735 eye-sketch1757 scribble1824 monography1828 technical drawing1831 chic1844 reversion1848 outline drawing1850 life drawing1867 1844 Art-union July 161/1 The picture is..curious and not strictly natural, for here M. Gudin displays rather his power in chique than his knowledge of nature. 1888 Sat. Rev. 21 Apr. 473/1 The Continental Gallery..remains a far from dull lounging-place, where, for the most part, gay pictures with a story or amazing efforts of ‘chic’ abound. 1889 W. D. Howells Hazard New Fortunes I. ii. iv. 169 Even when they have talent they've got too much against them. Where a girl doesn't seem very strong..no amount of chic is going to help. 1921 E. J. Sullivan Art of Illustr. xv. 105 A drawing obviously made from ‘chic’, where any trick is resorted to in order to cover up the flimsiness of the construction, is hardly more distressing than the conscientious product which makes a display of laborious..copying of a pose from which all life has evaporated. 1989 Q. Bell Bad Art 118 We draw from ‘chic’—placing the pupils of eyes above the corners of the mouth, the lobe of the ear on a level with the nostril and so on. 2. a. Sophisticated stylishness and elegance, esp. in dress, taste, or manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > attractive or impressive quality > [noun] accomplishment1586 chic1851 style1967 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistic treatment or style > types of grotesque1561 charging1569 gusto1662 grand manner1695 manner1706 flatnessa1719 style1801 low key1803 mannerism1803 daguerreotype1850 chic1851 conventionalization1880 Louis Philippe1908 stylization1908 convention1926 historicism1939 pop1958 1851 Dollar Mag. Aug. 79/2 There is no style or chique in anything that he does. 1877 R. H. Roberts Harry Holbrooke of Holbrooke Hall i. 16 There is an air of chic and high tone about him. 1932 Western Gaz. 1 Jan. 11/4 The tie should be knotted round the throat, without a collar. It is just added to give a touch of chic. 2007 Financial Times 17 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 6/6 The grain gives the shoe a certain chic not usually associated with cap-toed Oxfords. 2018 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 11 Aug. 6 Style icon Audrey Hepburn..joined forces with Givenchy and a new kind of chic emerged. b. As the second element in compounds: the style or look associated with a specified lifestyle or subculture (now esp. one which might seem unlikely as a source of inspiration) regarded or appropriated as fashion.For more established compounds, as eco-chic, geek chic, heroin chic, radical chic, etc., see the first element. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > a particular fashion cut1578 trink?1578 chic1970 1970 S. Krim Shake it for World, Smartass 186 The New Yorker..fluffed the challenge of imaginatively redefining its purpose..stretching its now rubber conscience to include tokens of radical chic and impressiveness on top but not at the bottom where it counts. 1987 I. Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings i. 13 His skull was shaven, deathrow chic, and was so massive and burdened with unassimilated information that it tipped aggressively forward, almost onto his chest. 1991 Elle (U.S. ed.) July 112 With that change comes the fast, free, and uncontrived appeal of biker chic. 2001 Yahoo! Internet Life July 42/4 When major fashion labels started making laptop bags, we knew geek chic was here to stay. Derivatives ˈchicness n. the quality of being chic; stylish elegance; fashionableness. ΚΠ 1885 Life 20 Aug. 110/2 It is light and airy, giving a certain chicness to the figure. 1999 in D. Bolger Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel 103 Her own neat grey suit and white shirt fitted in here quite well..though her brand of chicness had a more modest Irish stamp. 2007 Times 9 May (Suppl.) 7/1 When he dresses down he conveys dynamism and chicness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). chicv. Brit. /ʃiːk/, U.S. /ʃik/ Forms: 1800s chicque, 1800s chique, 1800s– chic. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: chic n., chic adj. Etymology: Partly < chic n., and partly < chic adj. 1. transitive. In the fine arts: to create (a piece of artwork) using one's imagination or by following guidelines, as distinguished from working from life. Also with up. Now rare. ΚΠ 1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 106/1 Among English painters, to chic up a picture, or to do a thing from chic = to work without models and out of one's own head. 1898 H. C. Oakley As having Nothing iv. 68 He knew enough about art to feel..that the work was not chicqued in any particular;..that there must exist, somewhere, a girl who answered so completely to the character which had grown real and dear to him. 1920 W. D. Howells Vacation of Kelwyns viii. 58 She drew with fitful industry under her masters, and chicqued a kind of water-colors, which she knew she had not invented and which she did not wholly respect. 1943 F. H. Eckstorm Let. 20 Feb. in Bull. Mus. Fine Arts (1952) 50 81/2 He painted hands very well and never chic-ed them. 2. transitive. To make (something) stylishly elegant and sophisticated; to render (something) chic. Chiefly with up. ΚΠ 1919 G. Wood & E. Burbank Art of Interior Decoration xxxi. 272 Interior decoration not infrequently leads to a desire to chic the appearance of one's ‘out-of-doors’. 1998 Independent 25 Feb. 19/5 You can wear casual baggy checked trousers with them [i.e. wooden platform clogs] and they somehow manage to chic it up and make the most masculine of outfits look feminine. 2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 Oct. (Eastern ed.) d4 Kennedy's funny old rocking chair..completely chic-ed up the room by being so quirky and unexpected. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1832v.1891
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