chin

(Anglais)

Noun

1. The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
2. (US, slang) Talk.
3. (British, slang) A lie, a falsehood.
4. (British, slang) A person of the upper class.
5. (uncountable) The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
6. The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
7. The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.

Verb

1. (dated, intransitive, slang) To talk.
2. (dated, slang, transitive) To talk to or with (someone).
3. (intransitive, reflexive) To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar).
4. (UK, transitive) To punch or hit (someone), especially on the chin (part of the body).
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.
7. (transitive) To put one's chin on (something).
8. (transitive) To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.

Opposé de

glass chin, glass jaw

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/t͡ʃɪn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: chyn

Hérité de ancien anglais: ċinn

Appartenant à danois: kind

Appartenant à islandais: kinn

Appartenant à gallois: gen

Appartenant à latin: gena

Appartenant à Tokharian A: śanwem

Appartenant à grec ancien: γένυς

Appartenant à arménien: ծնոտ

Appartenant à persan: چانه

Appartenant à sanskrit: हनु

In summary

From Middle English chyn, from Old English ċinn (“chin”), from Proto-West Germanic *kinnu, 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 śanweṃ, Ancient Greek γένυς (génus, “jaw”), Armenian ծնոտ (cnot), Persian چانه (čâne), Sanskrit हनु (hánu). Doublet of gena.

Concepts

menton

barbe

mâchoire

barbiche

chinchilla

Synonymes

jaw

beard

lower jaw

mentum

chin up

chin-wag

jowl

whiskers

mandible

chat

moustache

snout

ket

insolent talk

blade

button

caruncle

cheek

edge

gab

jawbone

jawline

lower lip

secret

㊙️

Traductions

mento

Kinn

mentón

barbilla

kin

queixo

podbródek

mentum

mentó

broda

çene

barbeta

πηγούνι

ذقن

mento