ciaoint.
/tʃaʊ/, U.S. /tʃaʊ/ An informal Italian greeting or farewell (also affected as a fashionable expression by English speakers): hello, good-bye.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of greeting
hailc1200
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good day1857
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all right1868
g'day1894
'lo1913
ciao1929
hiya1940
hidey1941
well-done1971
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of farewell
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vale?1555
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ciao1961
toodles1965
tatty-bye1971
toodle-pip1977
1929 E. Hemingway Farewell to Arms iii. 18 ‘Ciaou!’ he said. ‘What kind of time did you have?’
1961 ‘I. T. Ross’ Requiem for Schoolgirl x. 172 ‘I'll tell him,’ he said. ‘Ciao.’
1965 C. Glyn Love & Joy in Mabillon xviii. 134 ‘You're going?’ Chantal asked... ‘Yes. Ciao’, said Theo and went out.
1970 S. Hazzard Bay of Noon x. 152 Crowds of children were swimming off the rocks along the Posillipo... They sometimes looked up to us and waved, and she waved back or called out ‘Ciao,’ while I set out a jug and glasses on a table between us.
1980 ‘C. Birdwell’ Amazons xi. 269 I heard Floss ask Murray, ‘When did New Yorkers stop saying ciao?’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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