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chikan¹
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Japanese 痴漢.
noun chikan · chikans
- Any act of public molestation or offense, usually of a sexual nature, against unsuspecting victims.
- A person, usually a man, who rubs against or gropes others, usually women, in crowds, often in trains, to attain sexual pleasure.
chikan²
Where it comes from
From Hindi चिकन (cikan).
noun chikans
- A form of Indian cotton embroidery that is associated with the Lucknow area. A collection of Calcutta chikan-work. Sent by Patna Chikanwala and Sons of Taltala, Calcutta
- An item (such as a sari, bedspread, cushion cover, etc) that is made with chikan embroidery. More and more people in India and abroad are getting familiar with the exquisite embroidered chikans of Lucknow, embroidered by the delicate and clever fingers of about 4000 ladies in and around the old city.
Chikan³
Where it comes from
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 赤坎 (Chìkǎn).
proper noun Ch'ih-k'an
- A town in Kaiping, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China. Close to 4,000 households are being forced out of a centuries-old town on the western edge of the Pearl River Delta by their local government, which has teamed up with an investment firm to turn it into a tourist attraction. It’s not what the residents of Chikan’s old town expected when the nearby K
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name town
| 中文 | 赤坎 Chìkǎn |
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title = {chikan},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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