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uminate on, meditate on or over: I'll chew over your proposal
and let you know.
chic adj. 1 stylish, fashionable, … la mode, modish, smart,
tasteful, elegant; sophisticated; Colloq trendy: Susanna was
always a chic dresser.
--n. 2 style, fashion, good taste, tastefulness, elegance,
stylishness, modishness: There is an air of chic about him that
repels many men but attracts many women.
chicanery n. trickery, sophistry, deception, quibbling, sharp practice,
cheating, deviousness, duplicity, pettifoggery, double-dealing,
artifice, skulduggery: They lost the case because of the
chicanery of their lawyers.
chief n. 1 head, leader, principal, superior, supervisor,
superintendent, manager, overseer, captain, master, ringleader,
chieftain, Dialect himself, Colloq boss, bossman, Brit governor,
gov., supremo, US man, kingpin, (head or chief) honcho, number
one, numero uno, headman, big White Chief, big Chief, Great
White Father, big Daddy, super; Slang big cheese, Brit gaffer,
Chiefly US Mr Big: You'd best ask the chief for permission to
fly to Rome.
--adj. 2 head, leading, ranking, superior, supreme, foremost,
premier, first, greatest, outstanding: Terry is your chief
competition for the singles trophy. 3 principal, most
important, essential, key, paramount, (first and) foremost,
primary, prime, main: The chief reason I came was to see you.
Here is a list of the chief crimes committed in the area last
year.
chiefly adv. mainly, in particular, especially, particularly, above
all, most of all, pre-eminently, principally, primarily, mostly,
predominantly, largely, by and large, on the whole, in the main,
generally, in general, usually, as a rule: Inflation affected
chiefly the price of food. The Anatomy of Melancholy consists
chiefly of quotations.
child n. 1 offspring, descendant, son or daughter, little one,
youngster, Formal progeny, issue, Colloq kid, nipper, Slang Brit
sprog: How many children do you have? 2 foetus, newborn,