Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
chico . - noun The mucilaginous seeds of Sterculia Chica, a South American tree. See
Sterculia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
chica .
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- noun A
fermented beverage , most commonly made frommaize ,grapes orapples .
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- noun an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
Etymologies
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Examples
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The corn has long been used to make a beer called chicha, which is drunk especially during ritual or political activities.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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One day when they had been at work, on returning to their hut, they found in it some small loaves of bread, and a jar of chicha, which is the beverage used in this country in place of wine, made of boiled maize.
History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
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The people, as I have said, are very polished and intelligent, and go always clad and shod; they eat maize both cooked and raw, and drink much chicha, which is a beverage made from maize after the fashion of beer.
Relación de la conquista del Perú. English Pedro Sancho 1918
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Their beverage, called chicha -- a name common throughout
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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In one episode Mr. Calagione learns to make a fermented corn drink called chicha from a group of elderly women in Peru.
NYT > Home Page By JOSH EELLS 2010
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It´s essentially chicken stew mixed with a type of maize alcohol called chicha - it tastes disgusting by itself but the food was not bad, even with my contribution!
TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Over the last several millennia it's been popped like popcorn, made into flour, brewed into beer (known as chicha blanca), and boiled like rice.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Elsewhere, "Adigbedoto" by Gnonnas Pedro glides on reverb-sozzled guitars that seem to owe as much to the Peruvian pop-rock style known as chicha as it does to any Beninese tradition.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Andrea splits her time between agriculture and making a Peruvian drink called chicha in her house.
Kiva Loans 2009
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 Both the hypocotyl and the leaves are used and can be fermented to produce a weak beer called chicha de maca.
mikeropology commented on the word chicha
also, a pre-conquest fermented beverage native to South America.
November 25, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word chicha
Yeah, fermented corn. Wiggy!
November 25, 2007
yarb commented on the word chicha
I had this recently; I can't say it blew me away.
November 26, 2007
yarb commented on the word chicha
"'I see! I see!' impetuously exclaimed Don Pedro, spilling his chicha upon his silvery ruffles."
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 54
July 25, 2008