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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(India, Pakistan, Malaysia) Synonym of chick (“screen or blind made of bamboo and twine”).
1895, Charlotte Maria Tucker, Letter to Miss 'Leila' Hamilton, in Agnes Giberne, The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker, London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 206, https://books.google.ca/books?id=FbUOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false I have, however, "chick" blinds to my outer doors; these are made of thin split bamboos; and if I let them down, no one can see in.
Mirza Saeed drew up the chick blinds and fastened their cords.
A slightly warm breeze came in the window from behind the chick-blinds which the gardener sprayed with water from the hose every fifteen minutes.
Use chick-blind when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chick-blind means (India, Pakistan, Malaysia) Synonym of chick (“screen or blind made of bamboo and twine”).
Common synonyms include chick.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1895, Charlotte Maria Tucker, Letter to Miss 'Leila' Hamilton, in Agnes Giberne, The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker, London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 206, https://books.google.ca/books?id=FbUOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false I have, however, "chick" blinds to my outer doors; these are made of thin split bamboos; and if I let them down, no one can see in.
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