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→‎See also: Removed |Aksai-chin, |Chiang-chin and |T'ien-chin. Basis: Basis: Wiktionary:Semantic_relations#Otherwise_related says that the 'See also' heading demands a semantic relationship and the 'chin' parts of these three words (derived from 津 and local language) do not bear any semantic relationship with the senses on this entry.
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Revision as of 23:17, 11 October 2022

See also: Chin, chín, chỉn, -chin, chîⁿ, and Ch'in

English

Composer Ambroise Thomas with hand on chin (1).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: chĭn, IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪn/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English chyn, from Old English ċinn (“chin”), from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz (“chin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“chin, jaw”). Compare West Frisian/Dutch kin, Low German/German Kinn, Danish kind, Icelandic kinn, Welsh gen, Latin gena, Tocharian A śanwem, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., Armenian ծնոտ (cnot), Persian چانه (čâne), Sanskrit हनु (hánu). Doublet of gena.

Noun

chin (plural chins)

  1. The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
  2. (slang, US) Talk.
  3. (slang, British) A lie, a falsehood.
  4. (slang, British) A person of the upper class.
  5. (boxing, uncountable) The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
  6. (aviation) The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
    • 1990, Army, volume 40:
      In the cleft of the aircraft's chin is a small turret for a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) "eyeball" that will enable MH-47E pilots to see clearly in complete darkness […]
    • 2001, Aviation Week & Space Technology:
      Lockheed Martin's system is mounted behind a transparent, low-observable window blended into the aircraft's chin.
  7. The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.
Synonyms
  • (central area of the jaw, below the mouth): mentum (anatomy)
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

chin (third-person singular simple present chins, present participle chinning, simple past and past participle chinned)

  1. (slang, dated, intransitive) To talk.
    • 1912, Jack London, Smoke Bellew, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 5, p. 141,[2]
      “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.”
    • 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 1, p. 3,[3]
      This little chore involved getting up at 3 A.M., working about two hours, then sitting around chinning and drinking coffee with the radio operators until too late to go back to sleep.
  2. (slang, dated, transitive) To talk to or with (someone).
    • 1911, Henry Sydnor Harrison, Queed, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 7, p. 85,[4]
      “Been up chinning your sporting editor, Ragsy Hurd. […] ”
    • 1912, Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow, The Black Pearl, New York: Appleton, Chapter 12, p. 239,[5]
      “What do you suppose that Seagreave’s chinning Hughie about[?]”
  3. (reflexive, intransitive) To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar).
    • 1913, Upton Sinclair, The Fasting Cure, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, p. 34,[6]
      It is worth noting that on the eighth day he was strong enough to “chin” himself six times in succession, though previous to the fasting treatment he had never in his life been able to do this more than once or twice.
    • 1922, E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room, New York: Modern Library, 1949, Chapter 4, p. 80,[7]
      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 […]
    • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 5, p. 119,[8]
      The Englishmen had also been lifting weights and chinning themselves for years. Their bellies were like washboards. The muscles of their calves and upper arms were like cannonballs.
    • 1986, Martin Cohen, The Marine Corps 3X Fitness Program, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 3, p. 75,[9]
      You can grunt and curse to your heart’s content but you cannot swing your body when chinning.
  4. (chiefly UK, transitive) To punch or hit (someone)'s chin (part of the body).
    • 1915, Ralph Henry Barbour, Left Tackle Thayer, New York: Dodd, Mead, Chapter 14, pp. 183-184,[10]
      He told me once that he used to be scared to death every time he started in a hard game for fear he’d get badly injured. Said it wasn’t until someone had jabbed him in the nose or ‘chinned’ him that he forgot to be scared.
    • 1966, Nell Dunn “OUT with the Boys” in Up the Junction, Philadelphia: Lippincott, p. 88,[11]
      ‘I’m in trouble, I hit a policeman—chinned him. He was messin’ me about, pushin’ me around on the pavement, so I chinned him, didn’t I? […] ’
  5. (transitive) To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.
  6. (transitive) To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.
    • 1958, Robert Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, New York: Del Rey, Chapter 8, p. 160,[15]
      I was too tired to argue; I chinned the valve three or four times, felt a blast blistering my face.
    • 1985, Joe Haldeman, “You Can Never Go Back” in Dealing in Futures, New York: Viking, p. 154,[16]
      I landed kind of sloppily on hands and knees and chinned the squad frequency. “First squad sound off!”
  7. (transitive) To put one's chin on (something).
    • 1977, Ian Wallace, The Sign of the Mute Medusa, New York: Popular Library, Chapter 26, p. 243,[17]
      […] she elbowed the table and chinned her hand.
    • 1994, Garry Disher, Crosskill, St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, Chapter 7, p. 35,[18]
      He chinned the alley fence and looked both ways along it.
  8. (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,[19]
      But you don’t love him, said Madame Sonia with understanding. Do you love this one? Madame Sonia chinned the American.
Synonyms
  • (talk (slang)): gab
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Shortening of chinchilla.

Noun

chin (plural chins)

  1. (informal) A chinchilla.

See also

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

Akin to French chien, from Latin canis.

Noun

chin

  1. dog

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin pīnus. Compare Romanian pin.

Noun

chin

  1. pine

See also

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Latin canem, accusative singular of canis.

Pronunciation

Noun

chin m (plural chins)

  1. dog

Coordinate terms

References

  • Gouvert, Xavier. 2020. Un chaînon manquant de la reconstruction romane: Le protofrancoprovençal. In Buchi, Éva & Schweickard, Wolfgang (eds.), Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman 3: Entre idioroman et protoroman, 67–104. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  1. ^ Gouvert 2020: 82

Japanese

Romanization

chin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ちん
  2. Rōmaji transcription of チン

Kumeyaay

Pronunciation

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

Adjective

chin

  1. one.

Middle English

Noun

chin

  1. Alternative form of chyn

Min Nan

For pronunciation and definitions of chin – see 真 (“true; genuine; real; actual; really; truly; very; quite”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 真).

Pronunciation

Noun

chin

  1. grime, filth, body dirt

Synonyms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian kín.

Pronunciation

Noun

chin n (plural chinuri)

  1. torture, pain

Declension

Declension of chin
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) chin chinul (niște) chinuri chinurile
genitive/dative (unui) chin chinului (unor) chinuri chinurilor
vocative chinule chinurilor

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române (DEX) Online : [1]

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃin/ [ˈt͡ʃĩn]

Noun

chin m (plural chines)

  1. (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico) small amount
    Dame un chin de café.
    Give me a little coffee.
    Synonym: poco

References

  • Orlando Alba (2003) Cómo hablamos los dominicanos‎[20], Santo Domingo: Amigo del Hogar

Further reading

Tày

Pronunciation

Verb

chin (𩚍)

  1. to eat
    Synonym: kin

References

  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎[21] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
  • Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[22][23] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
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