chicanen.

Brit.

/ʃᵻˈkeɪn/, U.S.

/ʃəˈkeɪn/

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

Etymology: < French chicane petty quibble used in legal wrangling (1582 in Middle French), petty quibbling, subterfuge, trickery (a1654), (in extended use) zigzag track which passes around a number of obstacles (1899) < chicaner chicane v. Compare earlier chicanery n.Compare German Schikane (17th cent. as Chicane; < French).

a. A quibble or captious objection, esp. one used to further one's interests or aims; a dishonest trick; an act of deception. Cf. chicanery n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > inferior or rascally > instance of

chicane1639

chicanery1683

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > crafty or misleading > instance of

chicane1639

chicanery1683

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > [noun] > instance of

cavillation1532

cavil1570

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snatcha1616

chicane1639

chicanery1683

1639 G. Digby in G. Digby & K. Digby Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 128 Most men, while their thoughts are so busied in chicanes of controverted points, grow negligent of those more weighty ones that neerlyer import salvation.

1676 W. Temple Let. in Wks. (1731) II. 369 Sir Lyonell Jenkins told me..of a Chicane made him by Monsieur Beverning upon the Point of first Visit.

1729 B. Mandeville Fable Bees ii. ii. 78 Cleo. There is a great Difference between that [i.e. natural Courage] and artificial Courage. Hor. That's a Chicane I won't enter into.

1751 D. Hume Enq. Princ. Morals iii. 55 One, who takes Advantage of such Chicanes, is not regarded as an honest Man.

1862 tr. F. de Lesseps in Daily News 29 May (Suppl.) 4/4 Why, then, wish to cast, by means of hypothesis or arbitrary doubts, discredit on so useful an enterprise?.. Let us avoid these chicanes, and walk in union and cordiality towards the end to which the people..aspire.

1971 Jrnl. Criminal Law, Criminol., & Police Sci. 62 444/2 Tax evasion is a chicane practiced by all segments of society.

2017 Times (Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 19 Aug. 8 The legal chicanes to which noblemen and women resorted to keep and enlarge their possessions.

†b. Slyness or wiliness of character; the quality of being inclined to trickery, deception, or quibbling. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > inferior or rascally

pettifogging1580

chicanery1589

pettifoggery1659

chicane1681

shysterism1926

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > [noun]

cavillation138.

hafting1519

brabbling1532

brabblementa1563

chicanery1589

caption1605

illaqueation1605

argutation1641

chicane1681

1681 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes 265 It savours too much either of the Chicane of the Canonists, or of the Morals of the Jesuits, to employ others to do a thing in a Man's Name, which he will not own himself.

1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins 5 Those Terms and Phrases, about which they continue to squabble, with an Impertinence, Insincerity, and Chicane.

1773 Morning Chron. 20 Feb. The Grand Imposter..with his natural chicane.

1914 T. Dreiser Titan xliv. 377 One of the primal instincts of Cowperwood's nature—for all his chicane and subtlety—was to take no rough advantage of a beaten enemy.

c. The use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose, esp. a legal, financial, or political purpose; petty quibbling or (esp. legal) trickery. Cf. chicanery n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > crafty or misleading

chicanery1589

chicane1683

1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France iii. 952 They propounded to exterminate all Despotique Power, the Papacy, and Chicane or Pettyfogging, which they termed the three Pests of humane kind.

1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. v. 319 All the subtleties and chicane which the court of Rome can so dexterously employ to protract or defeat any cause.

1807 J. Jebb Let. 2 Aug. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) I. 350 That church..tried everything that chicane and bribery could do, to gain her.

1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 56 The whole commerce was a mass of fraud and chicane.

2010 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 4 July 57 The subject of Close Examination is forgery, although the show blurs that word to include all kinds of practices we might not have thought of as chicane.

2. Cards, esp. Bridge. Now rare.

a. The condition of holding no trumps; a hand that contains no trumps. double chicane n. the condition of partners in a game of bridge both holding no trumps.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > types of hand > distribution of cards in hand > specific

chicane1886

quick trick1921

length1927

honour trick1931

1886 J. Collinson Biritch 4 If one hand has no trumps..this is called ‘chicane’.

1895 ‘Boaz’ Laws of Bridge 3 Chicane is thus reckoned:—If a player holds no trump, he and his partner score for Chicane twice the value of the trump suit trick.

1922 Daily Mail 25 Nov. 8/5 The real tragedies occur where you hold a long solid suit..and you find double chicane and the rest of the suit massed against you in one hand.

1990 A. Leak tr. G. Perec in G. Perec Things & Men Asleep 173 One pairing..could make a grand slam against any defence thanks to an unlikely distribution of chicanes and long suits.

b. With in, denoting a hand in which a player is dealt no cards of a specified suit.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > types of hand

rock-crusher1859

chicane1900

yarborough1900

suiter1909

two-suiter1923

spread1929

swing hand1960

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > hand > types of hand

flusha1529

renounce1830

lay-down1839

no-trumper1899

chicane1900

pianola hand1913

powerhouse1932

void1933

pianola1974

1900 Times (Philadelphia) 11 Mar. 18/7 8 must be deducted, because one adversary had no trump, chicane in clubs.

1955 I. Fleming Moonraker vii. 76 When M.'s hand went down showing chicane in diamonds, Drax snarled across at his partner.

1992 Country Life 5 Nov. 114/1 West has chicane in Clubs.

a. Motor Racing. A sharp double bend on a racing track, created to prevent competitors driving at speeds deemed unsafe. Also: a temporary obstacle that creates an artificial curve on a racing track.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > course or track > structures on track

chicane1934

pylon1954

1934 Scotsman 8 Sept. 10/7 On the curves themselves ‘chicanes’ have been inserted, consisting of small right-angled detours off the track.

1958 Times 8 Apr. 14/2 Led..for three laps; only to crash into the chicane barrier.

2019 cnn.com (O.E.D. Archive) 27 Jan. Lucas di Grassi was moved to the back of the pack for cutting a chicane in qualifying.

b. A raised or marked area on a road which narrows the roadway and creates an obstacle around which vehicles must drive, thereby encouraging motorists to reduce their speed; (occasionally) the artificial curve in a road resulting from such an obstacle.

ΚΠ

1945 Autocar 23 Mar. 201/3 The same considerations apply to the type of obstruction placed at the junction of main and secondary roads, known as the ‘chicane’.

1983 B. Willis & A. Lee Captain's Diary i. 9 Alex Smith..negotiated the cones and chicanes of the dreaded M1 route from Birmingham to London.

1991 Town Planning Rev. 60 95 A chicane designed to accommodate four-wheel vehicles is less likely to slow a two-wheeler.

2008 Times 15 Nov. 29/2 The speed limit has been reduced to 20mph but there is no plan to enforce it and there are no road humps or chicanes to compel drivers to slow down.

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

chicanev.

Brit.

/ʃᵻˈkeɪn/, U.S.

/ʃəˈkeɪn/

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

Etymology: < French chicaner to use deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose in a legal matter (1606; already 1461 in Middle French in the more general sense ‘to enter into litigation with (a person)’), probably a blend of a base *tsikk- , expressive of smallness (compare the base underlying chiche miserly, parsimonious: see Chichevache n.), and ricaner to bray (end of the 14th cent.), to laugh in an affected way (1538), to laugh in a silly way (late 17th cent.: see note). Compare earlier chicane n., chicanery n.Compare German schikanieren (16th cent. as chicaniren ; < French). French ricaner is an alteration (probably after rire to laugh: see riant adj.) of rechaner , recaner to bray (early 12th cent. in Old French) < re- re- prefix + (regional, Normandy) cane tooth (early 12th cent.; < an unattested Frankish noun < the Germanic base of chin n.¹).

a. intransitive. To use deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose, esp. a legal, financial, or political purpose; to employ chicanery.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > act fraudulently, cheat [verb (intransitive)]

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defraudc1384

to take (the) advantagea1393

false1393

halt1412

haft1519

juggle1528

wily beguile1550

foist1584

lurch1593

fog1621

imposture1624

rook1637

impone1640

cheat1647

chicane1671

humbug1753

fineer1765

gag1781

mountebank1814

jockeya1835

sniggle1837

barney1848

straw1851

honeyfuggle1856

skinch1891

finagle1926

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > plead [verb (intransitive)] > plead as advocate > with chicanery

pettifog1611

chicane1671

1671 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 5) ii. 416 Our Ancestors thought those of inferiour rank, would rather debase the honour of the Law, and would be prone to chicane or play tricks, and not like to be so fit for Trusts and Honours.

a1672 M. Wren in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 252 At the Treaty of the Isle of Wight, while they stood chicaning.

1793 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 360 The Courts chicane very much here.

1953 G. Reitlinger Final Solution xiii. 313 Abetz was still chicaning to get the Vichy Government to publish the decree before the Germans did.

2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 194 ‘Otto Starks, she loves you. She needs you. I can take you to her.’ Is he chicaning? I almost don't care. At this point, anything could be true.

b. transitive. To trick (a person) into or out of something through chicanery. Also formerly with of. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > treat captiously [verb (transitive)]

cavil1581

chicanec1772

c1772 G. C. Taylor Diary in A. Underwood Some Bedfordshire Diaries (1960) (modernized text) 43 He had 'bezzled part of his estates away in a very foolish manner, and in fact [was] no better than cheated and chicaned of them.

1851 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 443/1 The Austrians would not now be chicaned into concession.

1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. iii. 57 She could not..chicane me into admitting the promise of marriage.

1985 L. Pan China's Sorrow vi. 205 He was bound by a code of loyalty to people of his own kind. That was one reason I hadn't been chicaned out of my foreign currency certificates.

c. transitive. To deceive (someone). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)]

aschrenchc885

blendc888

swikec950

belirtOE

beswike971

blencha1000

blenka1000

belieOE

becatchc1175

trokec1175

beguile?c1225

biwrench?c1225

guile?c1225

trechec1230

unordainc1300

blink1303

deceivec1320

feintc1330

trechetc1330

misusea1382

blind1382

forgo1382

beglose1393

troil1393

turnc1405

lirt?a1425

abuse?a1439

ludify1447

amuse1480

wilec1480

trump1487

delude?a1505

sile1508

betrumpa1522

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pot1560

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hallucinate1604

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nigglea1625

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cog1629

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flam1637

nurse1639

jilt1660

top1663

chaldese1664

bilk1672

bejuggle1680

nuzzlec1680

snub1694

bite1709

nebus1712

fugle1719

to take in1740

have?1780

quirk1791

rum1812

rattlesnake1818

chicane1835

to suck in1842

mogue1854

blinker1865

to have on1867

mag1869

sleight1876

bumfuzzle1878

swop1890

wool1890

spruce1917

jive1928

shit1934

smokescreen1950

dick1964

1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 37 359 Their ingenuity in having chicaned the landlords of the north.

1954 Astounding Sci. Fiction May 128/1 Mankind will..pay fortunes to be gulled, humbugged, and chicaned, but very little to be debunked and undeceived.

a. intransitive. To quibble with a person or thing; to quibble about or over something; to dwell needlessly and pettily on (also upon) something to achieve one's purpose. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > quibble, equivocate [verb (intransitive)]

quillet1653

quibble1655

baffle1656

chicane1705

pettifogulize1851

pettifogc1867

quib1918

brabblec1500

cavil1548

shuffle1602

to lie at catch or upon the catch1611

to shuffle up and down1633

chicane1705

1705 M. Astell Christian Relig. i. 25 I wou'd not cavil or chicane with my Prince concerning the Bounties and Favours shewn me.

1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. iii. xviii. 250 We ought not to chicane upon the Word Worship.

1844 J. S. Mill tr. M. Michelet in Edinb. Rev. Jan. 32 Chicaning on texts instead of invoking principles.

1898 Times 6 Dec. 7/2 He chicaned over the interpretation of the London Convention.

1939 C. K. Eves Matthew Prior iii. 72 Although Caillières had been for some time chicaning about ‘the manner of owning the king’, an order from Versailles had authorized him to yield to the English demand.

†b. transitive. To quibble about (something); to raise petty or unnecessary objections to (a person or thing). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

chicane1725

to chicane away1766

1725 tr. T.-S. Gueullette Chinese Tales I. 43 I promise to hear you with extreme Pleasure, and not to chicane you by such Reflections as might hinder you in your Relation, nor propose my Difficulties till you have finished all you have to say.

1755 W. Warburton View Bolingbroke's Philos.: Let. 4th 151 Tho' he cannot profit by their lights, he can shine at their expence: and, having well chicaned their expressions, can convert the truths, contained in them, to his own use.

1760 E. Nihell Answer to Author Crit. Rev. 22 I have not chicaned Dr. Smellie on the technical terms he has used.

1824 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 408 Those who read Prisot's opinion with a candid view to understand and not to chicane it.

†3. transitive. to chicane away: to get rid of (an objection, counter-argument, etc.) by chicanery; to quibble about (something) to the point of redundancy. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

chicane1725

to chicane away1766

1766 J. Tucker Serm. Christ-Church, London 5 If there be a Truth in Morals not to be controverted, or chicaned away, this is one.

1777 E. Burke Addr. to King Jan. in Writings & Speeches (1996) III. 268 The very possibility of Public Agency..has been evaded and chicaned away.

1855 Westm. Rev. Jan. 212 There is in his explanations none of the legal quibbling by which many of the commentators chicane away the meaning of an adverse phrase.

†4. transitive. To enter into litigation with (a person). Obsolete. Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > carry on or institute (an action) [verb (transitive)] > sue or institute action against

pleada1325

implead1387

follow1389

pursue1454

process1493

to put in suit1495

to call (a person) unto the law?a1513

sue1526

suit1560

prosecute1579

to fetch a person over the hips1587

trounce1638

law1647

prosecute1656

action1734

to fetch law of1832

court1847

chicane1865

actionize1871

run1891

1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. vi. 602 By way of codicil, Austria agrees not to chicane him in regard to Anspach-Baireuth.

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

单词	chicane
释义	chicanen. Brit. /ʃᵻˈkeɪn/, U.S. /ʃəˈkeɪn/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French chicane. Etymology: < French chicane petty quibble used in legal wrangling (1582 in Middle French), petty quibbling, subterfuge, trickery (a1654), (in extended use) zigzag track which passes around a number of obstacles (1899) < chicaner chicane v. Compare earlier chicanery n.Compare German Schikane (17th cent. as Chicane; < French). 1. a. A quibble or captious objection, esp. one used to further one's interests or aims; a dishonest trick; an act of deception. Cf. chicanery n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > inferior or rascally > instance of chicane1639 chicanery1683 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > crafty or misleading > instance of chicane1639 chicanery1683 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > [noun] > instance of cavillation1532 cavil1570 brabble1581 caption1605 snatcha1616 chicane1639 chicanery1683 1639 G. Digby in G. Digby & K. Digby Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 128 Most men, while their thoughts are so busied in chicanes of controverted points, grow negligent of those more weighty ones that neerlyer import salvation. 1676 W. Temple Let. in Wks. (1731) II. 369 Sir Lyonell Jenkins told me..of a Chicane made him by Monsieur Beverning upon the Point of first Visit. 1729 B. Mandeville Fable Bees ii. ii. 78 Cleo. There is a great Difference between that [i.e. natural Courage] and artificial Courage. Hor. That's a Chicane I won't enter into. 1751 D. Hume Enq. Princ. Morals iii. 55 One, who takes Advantage of such Chicanes, is not regarded as an honest Man. 1862 tr. F. de Lesseps in Daily News 29 May (Suppl.) 4/4 Why, then, wish to cast, by means of hypothesis or arbitrary doubts, discredit on so useful an enterprise?.. Let us avoid these chicanes, and walk in union and cordiality towards the end to which the people..aspire. 1971 Jrnl. Criminal Law, Criminol., & Police Sci. 62 444/2 Tax evasion is a chicane practiced by all segments of society. 2017 Times (Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 19 Aug. 8 The legal chicanes to which noblemen and women resorted to keep and enlarge their possessions. †b. Slyness or wiliness of character; the quality of being inclined to trickery, deception, or quibbling. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > inferior or rascally pettifogging1580 chicanery1589 pettifoggery1659 chicane1681 shysterism1926 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > [noun] cavillation138. hafting1519 brabbling1532 brabblementa1563 chicanery1589 caption1605 illaqueation1605 argutation1641 chicane1681 1681 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes 265 It savours too much either of the Chicane of the Canonists, or of the Morals of the Jesuits, to employ others to do a thing in a Man's Name, which he will not own himself. 1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins 5 Those Terms and Phrases, about which they continue to squabble, with an Impertinence, Insincerity, and Chicane. 1773 Morning Chron. 20 Feb. The Grand Imposter..with his natural chicane. 1914 T. Dreiser Titan xliv. 377 One of the primal instincts of Cowperwood's nature—for all his chicane and subtlety—was to take no rough advantage of a beaten enemy. c. The use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose, esp. a legal, financial, or political purpose; petty quibbling or (esp. legal) trickery. Cf. chicanery n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > crafty or misleading chicanery1589 chicane1683 1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France iii. 952 They propounded to exterminate all Despotique Power, the Papacy, and Chicane or Pettyfogging, which they termed the three Pests of humane kind. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. v. 319 All the subtleties and chicane which the court of Rome can so dexterously employ to protract or defeat any cause. 1807 J. Jebb Let. 2 Aug. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) I. 350 That church..tried everything that chicane and bribery could do, to gain her. 1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 56 The whole commerce was a mass of fraud and chicane. 2010 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 4 July 57 The subject of Close Examination is forgery, although the show blurs that word to include all kinds of practices we might not have thought of as chicane. 2. Cards, esp. Bridge. Now rare. a. The condition of holding no trumps; a hand that contains no trumps. double chicane n. the condition of partners in a game of bridge both holding no trumps. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > types of hand > distribution of cards in hand > specific chicane1886 quick trick1921 length1927 honour trick1931 1886 J. Collinson Biritch 4 If one hand has no trumps..this is called ‘chicane’. 1895 ‘Boaz’ Laws of Bridge 3 Chicane is thus reckoned:—If a player holds no trump, he and his partner score for Chicane twice the value of the trump suit trick. 1922 Daily Mail 25 Nov. 8/5 The real tragedies occur where you hold a long solid suit..and you find double chicane and the rest of the suit massed against you in one hand. 1990 A. Leak tr. G. Perec in G. Perec Things & Men Asleep 173 One pairing..could make a grand slam against any defence thanks to an unlikely distribution of chicanes and long suits. b. With in, denoting a hand in which a player is dealt no cards of a specified suit. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > types of hand rock-crusher1859 chicane1900 yarborough1900 suiter1909 two-suiter1923 spread1929 swing hand1960 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > hand > types of hand flusha1529 renounce1830 lay-down1839 no-trumper1899 chicane1900 pianola hand1913 powerhouse1932 void1933 pianola1974 1900 Times (Philadelphia) 11 Mar. 18/7 8 must be deducted, because one adversary had no trump, chicane in clubs. 1955 I. Fleming Moonraker vii. 76 When M.'s hand went down showing chicane in diamonds, Drax snarled across at his partner. 1992 Country Life 5 Nov. 114/1 West has chicane in Clubs. 3. a. Motor Racing. A sharp double bend on a racing track, created to prevent competitors driving at speeds deemed unsafe. Also: a temporary obstacle that creates an artificial curve on a racing track. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > course or track > structures on track chicane1934 pylon1954 1934 Scotsman 8 Sept. 10/7 On the curves themselves ‘chicanes’ have been inserted, consisting of small right-angled detours off the track. 1958 Times 8 Apr. 14/2 Led..for three laps; only to crash into the chicane barrier. 2019 cnn.com (O.E.D. Archive) 27 Jan. Lucas di Grassi was moved to the back of the pack for cutting a chicane in qualifying. b. A raised or marked area on a road which narrows the roadway and creates an obstacle around which vehicles must drive, thereby encouraging motorists to reduce their speed; (occasionally) the artificial curve in a road resulting from such an obstacle. ΚΠ 1945 Autocar 23 Mar. 201/3 The same considerations apply to the type of obstruction placed at the junction of main and secondary roads, known as the ‘chicane’. 1983 B. Willis & A. Lee Captain's Diary i. 9 Alex Smith..negotiated the cones and chicanes of the dreaded M1 route from Birmingham to London. 1991 Town Planning Rev. 60 95 A chicane designed to accommodate four-wheel vehicles is less likely to slow a two-wheeler. 2008 Times 15 Nov. 29/2 The speed limit has been reduced to 20mph but there is no plan to enforce it and there are no road humps or chicanes to compel drivers to slow down. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). chicanev. Brit. /ʃᵻˈkeɪn/, U.S. /ʃəˈkeɪn/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French chicaner. Etymology: < French chicaner to use deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose in a legal matter (1606; already 1461 in Middle French in the more general sense ‘to enter into litigation with (a person)’), probably a blend of a base tsikk- , expressive of smallness (compare the base underlying chiche* miserly, parsimonious: see Chichevache n.), and ricaner to bray (end of the 14th cent.), to laugh in an affected way (1538), to laugh in a silly way (late 17th cent.: see note). Compare earlier chicane n., chicanery n.Compare German schikanieren (16th cent. as chicaniren ; < French). French ricaner is an alteration (probably after rire to laugh: see riant adj.) of rechaner , recaner to bray (early 12th cent. in Old French) < re- re- prefix + (regional, Normandy) cane tooth (early 12th cent.; < an unattested Frankish noun < the Germanic base of chin n.¹). 1. a. intransitive. To use deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose, esp. a legal, financial, or political purpose; to employ chicanery. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > act fraudulently, cheat [verb (intransitive)] faitc1330 defraudc1384 to take (the) advantagea1393 false1393 halt1412 haft1519 juggle1528 wily beguile1550 foist1584 lurch1593 fog1621 imposture1624 rook1637 impone1640 cheat1647 chicane1671 humbug1753 fineer1765 gag1781 mountebank1814 jockeya1835 sniggle1837 barney1848 straw1851 honeyfuggle1856 skinch1891 finagle1926 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > plead [verb (intransitive)] > plead as advocate > with chicanery pettifog1611 chicane1671 1671 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 5) ii. 416 Our Ancestors thought those of inferiour rank, would rather debase the honour of the Law, and would be prone to chicane or play tricks, and not like to be so fit for Trusts and Honours. a1672 M. Wren in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 252 At the Treaty of the Isle of Wight, while they stood chicaning. 1793 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 360 The Courts chicane very much here. 1953 G. Reitlinger Final Solution xiii. 313 Abetz was still chicaning to get the Vichy Government to publish the decree before the Germans did. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 194 ‘Otto Starks, she loves you. She needs you. I can take you to her.’ Is he chicaning? I almost don't care. At this point, anything could be true. b. transitive. To trick (a person) into or out of something through chicanery. Also formerly with of. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > treat captiously [verb (transitive)] cavil1581 chicanec1772 c1772 G. C. Taylor Diary in A. Underwood Some Bedfordshire Diaries (1960) (modernized text) 43 He had 'bezzled part of his estates away in a very foolish manner, and in fact [was] no better than cheated and chicaned of them. 1851 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 443/1 The Austrians would not now be chicaned into concession. 1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. iii. 57 She could not..chicane me into admitting the promise of marriage. 1985 L. Pan China's Sorrow vi. 205 He was bound by a code of loyalty to people of his own kind. That was one reason I hadn't been chicaned out of my foreign currency certificates. c. transitive. To deceive (someone). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)] aschrenchc885 blendc888 swikec950 belirtOE beswike971 blencha1000 blenka1000 belieOE becatchc1175 trokec1175 beguile?c1225 biwrench?c1225 guile?c1225 trechec1230 unordainc1300 blink1303 deceivec1320 feintc1330 trechetc1330 misusea1382 blind1382 forgo1382 beglose1393 troil1393 turnc1405 lirt?a1425 abuse?a1439 ludify1447 amuse1480 wilec1480 trump1487 delude?a1505 sile1508 betrumpa1522 blear1530 aveugle1543 mislippen1552 pot1560 disglose1565 oversile1568 blaze1570 blirre1570 bleck1573 overtake1581 fail1590 bafflea1592 blanch1592 geck?a1600 hallucinate1604 hoodwink1610 intrigue1612 guggle1617 nigglea1625 nose-wipe1628 cog1629 cheat1637 flam1637 nurse1639 jilt1660 top1663 chaldese1664 bilk1672 bejuggle1680 nuzzlec1680 snub1694 bite1709 nebus1712 fugle1719 to take in1740 have?1780 quirk1791 rum1812 rattlesnake1818 chicane1835 to suck in1842 mogue1854 blinker1865 to have on1867 mag1869 sleight1876 bumfuzzle1878 swop1890 wool1890 spruce1917 jive1928 shit1934 smokescreen1950 dick1964 1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 37 359 Their ingenuity in having chicaned the landlords of the north. 1954 Astounding Sci. Fiction May 128/1 Mankind will..pay fortunes to be gulled, humbugged, and chicaned, but very little to be debunked and undeceived. 2. a. intransitive. To quibble with a person or thing; to quibble about or over something; to dwell needlessly and pettily on (also upon) something to achieve one's purpose. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > quibble, equivocate [verb (intransitive)] quillet1653 quibble1655 baffle1656 chicane1705 pettifogulize1851 pettifogc1867 quib1918 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > raise captiously [verb (intransitive)] brabblec1500 cavil1548 shuffle1602 to lie at catch or upon the catch1611 to shuffle up and down1633 chicane1705 1705 M. Astell Christian Relig. i. 25 I wou'd not cavil or chicane with my Prince concerning the Bounties and Favours shewn me. 1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. iii. xviii. 250 We ought not to chicane upon the Word Worship. 1844 J. S. Mill tr. M. Michelet in Edinb. Rev. Jan. 32 Chicaning on texts instead of invoking principles. 1898 Times 6 Dec. 7/2 He chicaned over the interpretation of the London Convention. 1939 C. K. Eves Matthew Prior iii. 72 Although Caillières had been for some time chicaning about ‘the manner of owning the king’, an order from Versailles had authorized him to yield to the English demand. †b. transitive. To quibble about (something); to raise petty or unnecessary objections to (a person or thing). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > treat captiously [verb (transitive)] > affect by chicanery chicane1725 to chicane away1766 1725 tr. T.-S. Gueullette Chinese Tales I. 43 I promise to hear you with extreme Pleasure, and not to chicane you by such Reflections as might hinder you in your Relation, nor propose my Difficulties till you have finished all you have to say. 1755 W. Warburton View Bolingbroke's Philos.: Let. 4th 151 Tho' he cannot profit by their lights, he can shine at their expence: and, having well chicaned their expressions, can convert the truths, contained in them, to his own use. 1760 E. Nihell Answer to Author Crit. Rev. 22 I have not chicaned Dr. Smellie on the technical terms he has used. 1824 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 408 Those who read Prisot's opinion with a candid view to understand and not to chicane it. †3. transitive. to chicane away: to get rid of (an objection, counter-argument, etc.) by chicanery; to quibble about (something) to the point of redundancy. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > treat captiously [verb (transitive)] > affect by chicanery chicane1725 to chicane away1766 1766 J. Tucker Serm. Christ-Church, London 5 If there be a Truth in Morals not to be controverted, or chicaned away, this is one. 1777 E. Burke Addr. to King Jan. in Writings & Speeches (1996) III. 268 The very possibility of Public Agency..has been evaded and chicaned away. 1855 Westm. Rev. Jan. 212 There is in his explanations none of the legal quibbling by which many of the commentators chicane away the meaning of an adverse phrase. †4. transitive. To enter into litigation with (a person). Obsolete. Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > carry on or institute (an action) [verb (transitive)] > sue or institute action against pleada1325 implead1387 follow1389 pursue1454 process1493 to put in suit1495 to call (a person) unto the law?a1513 sue1526 suit1560 prosecute1579 to fetch a person over the hips1587 trounce1638 law1647 prosecute1656 action1734 to fetch law of1832 court1847 chicane1865 actionize1871 run1891 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. vi. 602 By way of codicil, Austria agrees not to chicane him in regard to Anspach-Baireuth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1639v.1671
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