• (RP) enPR: shēk, IPA: /ʃiːk/
• (GA) IPA: /ʃik/

chic (comparative chicer, superlative chicest)

1. Elegant, stylish.
   • 1842 December – 1844 July​, Charles Dickens, “From which It will be Seen that Martin Became a Lion on His Own Account. Together with the Reason Why.”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, OCLC 977517776 ↗, page 277 ↗:

     Mrs. Hominy, sir, is the lady of Major Hominy, one of our chicest spirits; and belongs Toe^[sic] one of our most aristocratic families.

• chichi
• dapper
• fashionable
• natty
• trendy
• voguish

• inelegant, unelegant
• unchic
• unfashionable
• unstylish

• French: chic
• German: schick, chic
• Portuguese: chique
• Russian: шика́рный
• Spanish: chic, elegante

chic

1. (chiefly, uncountable) Good form#Noun|form; style#Noun|style.
2. (countable) A person with (a particular type of) chic.

• German: Chic
• Russian: шик

chic (plural chics)

1. A kind of ritual buffoon or clown in Yucatec Maya culture.

1. A diminutive of the male given name Charles.