chic, n.m., tact, effect, knack, style (paint.). Il a du —; there is something stylish about him.
chicambaut, n.m., (nav.) bumkin, luff-block.
chicane, n.f., cavil, evasion, quibble; chicanery, pettifogging, caviling, quibbling; the quirks of the law; wrangling. Gens de —; pettifoggers. Chercher — a quelqu’un; to pick a trumpery quarrel with any one.
chicaner, v.n., to chicane, to cavil, to quibble, to use tricks, to quarrel with; to use quirks, shifts; to wrangle, to perplex. — le vent; (nav.) to hug the wind.
chicanerie (shi-), n.f., chicanery; quibbling, caviling.
chicaneu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., chicani-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., and adj., chicaner, caviler, pettifogger, wrangler; litigious, caviling, wrangling.
chicard, -e, adj., (pop.) swellish.
chiche, adj., niggardly, penurious, stingy, scurvy, shabby, scanty, sordid, sparing, parsimonious, niggard. Pois —s; chick-peas, dwarf-peas.
chichement (shish-mān), adv., niggardly, penuriously, stingily, parsimoniously.
☉chicheté, n.f., niggardliness, covetousness, penuriousness.