chin
see also: Chin
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Chin
Proper noun
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see also: Chin
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English chyn, from Old English ċinn, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus.
Nounchin (plural chins)
- The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
- (slang, US) Talk.
- (slang, British) A lie, a falsehood.
- (slang, British) A person of the upper class.
- (boxing, uncountable) The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
- (aviation) The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
- The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.
- (central area of the jaw, below the mouth) mentum (anatomy)
- (antonym(s) of “boxing”): See glass jaw
- French: menton
- German: Kinn
- Italian: mento
- Portuguese: queixo, mento
- Russian: подборо́док
- Spanish: barbilla, mentón, pera
chin (chins, present participle chinning; simple past and past participle chinned)
- (slang, dated, intransitive) To talk.
- 1912, Jack London, chapter 5, in Smoke Bellew, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 141:
- “I reckon you can explain, Mrs. Peabody.” […] “An’ I reckon that newcomer you’ve been chinning with could explain if he had a mind to.”
- (slang, dated, transitive) To talk to or with (someone).
- (reflexive, intransitive) To perform a chin-up exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar.
- 1922, E. E. Cummings, chapter 4, in The Enormous Room, New York: Modern Library, published 1949, page 80:
- A description of the cour would be incomplete without an enumeration of the manifold duties of the planton in charge, which were as follows: to prevent the men from using the horizontal bar, except for chinning, since if you swung yourself upon it you could look over the wall into the women’s cour […]
- 1986, Martin Cohen, The Marine Corps 3X Fitness Program, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 3, p. 75:
- You can grunt and curse to your heart’s content but you cannot swing your body when chinning.
- (chiefly, UK, transitive) To punch or hit (someone)'s chin part of the body.
- (transitive) To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.
- 1951, Gene Fowler, chapter 16, in Schnozzola: The Story of Jimmy Durante, New York: Viking, page 173:
- Jimmy sat down at the piano, and the scientist tuned, then chinned the violin.
- (transitive) To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.
- 1985, Joe Haldeman, “You Can Never Go Back”, in Dealing in Futures, New York: Viking, page 154:
- I landed kind of sloppily on hands and knees and chinned the squad frequency. “First squad sound off!”
- (transitive) To put one's chin on (something).
- (transitive) To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.
- 2004, Han Ong, The Disinherited, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 239:
- But you don’t love him, said Madame Sonia with understanding. Do you love this one? Madame Sonia chinned the American.
- (talk (slang)) gab
Shortening of chinchilla.
Nounchin (plural chins)
- (informal) A chinchilla.
Chin
Proper noun
- A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
As a Chinese surname, a variant romanization of various Chinese - characters, typically in local dialects. As a name for China, see China.
Proper noun Etymology 3The atonal cmn-wadegiles - romanization of the Mandarin - pronunciation of Chinese 晉.
Proper noun- (obsolete) Alternative form of Jin: an ancient Chinese state and various medieval Chinese dynasties.
From Burmese ချင်း.
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