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/ˈʃi.ʃi/ · adjective
(mildly derogatory) Affectedly trendy; chic and stylish in a pretentious way..
Going in gangs to those chichi clubs at Maidenhead.
We drove up the mountain and found the narrow streets chock full of chichi tourists.
The sort of real delicious Italian country cooking that is a revelation after so much chichi Italian food dished up in London.
Not since a journalist morphed into Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate has a metamorphosis been so jarring. Of course, there were clues: Michael kicked a puppy in the very second episode, and no self-respecting Elysium so closely resembles a chichi outdoor mall in Pasadena.
If this was in Cornwall, which it so closely resembles, it would have become the most chichi of gentrified enclaves, colonised by big-name chefs and celebrity regulars.
But if the mix is no longer about life's essentials, and instead a new wave of chichi cafés, artisan bakers and fancy nail bars—are we right to ask, not how useful is your high street, but how bougie?
[H]e rubbed [his hands] with Bag Balm to help the cuts heal and keep the skin soft, a trick he'd learned from his grandmother, who told him when he was eighteen and getting ready for a date that no woman wanted to feel rough hands scratching up her chichis.
And later, in Latin Grill Express, Jesus makes sure to compliment her accent, her vocabulary, to express admiration for the way her chichis looked in the last dress all over again, then Sarah asks about his plans for work, what he will do when they all leave.
Use chi chi when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chi chi means (mildly derogatory) Affectedly trendy; chic and stylish in a pretentious way..
Common synonyms include bougie, bourgie, stylish, fashionable.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Going in gangs to those chichi clubs at Maidenhead.
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