chichi

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: chi=chi

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chichi, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 (of a thing) frilly, showy.
2 (of a person or behaviour) fussy, affected.
--n.
1 over-refinement, pretentiousness, fussiness.
2 a frilly, showy, or pretentious object.

Etymology

F

THESAURUS

chichi

affected, arabesque, baroque, brave, bravura, braw, busy, dandiacal, dandified, dandyish, daring, dashing, dressy, elaborate, elegant, exhibitionistic, fancy, fine, flamboyant, flashing, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, foppish, frilly, frothy, fussy, gallant, gay, glittering, high-wrought, jaunty, jazzy, la-di-da, labored, luxuriant, luxurious, moresque, ornate, ostentatious, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overnice, overrefined, overworked, overwrought, peacockish, peacocky, picturesque, precieux, pretentious, pretty-pretty, rakish, rich, rococo, showy, snazzy, splashy, splurgy, sporty, swank, ultrafashionable, ultrasmart, ultrastylish