chin-chinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• chinchin, chin chin, cincin, cin cin

発音

• IPA: /ˌt͡ʃɪnˈt͡ʃɪn/, /ˈt͡ʃɪnˌt͡ʃɪn/
• 韻: -ɪn

間投詞

chin-chin

1. (dated) A salutation, especially a drinking toast.
   • 1795, Michael Symes, An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, page 295:

     The two junior members of the Chinese deputation came at the appointed hour. . . . On entering the door of the marquee they both made an abrupt stop, and resisted all solicitation to advance to chairs that had been prepared for them, until I should first be seated; in this dilemma, Dr. Buchanan, who had visited China, advised me what was to be done; I immediately seized on the foremost, whilst the Doctor himself grappled with the second; thus we soon fixed them in their seats, both parties during the struggle, repeating Chin Chin, Chin Chin, the Chinese term of salutation.

動詞

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

1. (transitive, dated) To greet; to toast.
   • 1859, All the Year Round, number I, page 18:

     She ‘chin-chins’ the captain... and then nods her pretty head.

2. (intransitive, dated) To say 'chin-chin'.
   • 1892 Sept, The Cornhill Magazine, page 268:

     We ‘chin-chinned’ over foaming beakers.

   • 1966, Widow Hack, page 164:

     For the sake of appearances we chin-chinned and tried to look gay.

語源 2

Duplication of chin in its various senses. Compare chinwag.

名詞

chin-chin (countable and uncountable, plural chin-chins)

1. (US, informal, archaic) Discussion, conversation, talk.
   • 1877, Mark Twain, letter published in Love Letters (1949), p. 198:

     I haven't had so much chin-chin for years.

   • 1947, Coast to Coast, page 136:

     Mum and Mrs. Martin had a good chin-chin at the fence about sickness and husbands.

参照

• “chin chin, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1889.
• “chin, n¹.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1889.
• "Origins of Toast Are Little Hazy, but Watch Who You Salute", Evansville Courier & Press, 8 April 2009.
• "Chin-Chin", Languagehat, 26 April 2006.