Definition of Chicaning

1. Verb. (present participle of chicane) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chicaning

1. chicane [v] - See also: chicane

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chicaning

chibouques
chibs
chic
chica
chicalote
chicalotes
chicana
chicanas
chicane
chicaned
chicaner
chicaneries
chicaners
chicanery
chicanes
chicaning (current term)
chicano
chicanos
chicas
chiccories
chiccory
chicer
chicest
chich
chicha
chicharrones
chichas
chicheme
chichemes
chiches

Literary usage of Chicaning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"I am sure it is not chicaning to presume that so great an author as your lordship writes according to the rules of grammar, and as another man writes, ..."

2. Catalogue of the Library at Abbotsford by Walter Scott (1838)
"Marrow chicaning displayed, in a Letter to the Rev. ... E.) The Viper shaken off,&c. being a short Answer to " Marrow chicaning displayed," &c. .......... и ..."

3. Essay on Irish Bulls by Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth (1803)
"Head of cheating or chicaning their neighbours.' Irishman.—' chicaning; ay, there's the rub; they cannot live without ..."

4. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1865)
"He is very agreeable in conversation, polite, good-humored, and sensible; spoke with great indignation against the practice of lying, chicaning, ..."

5. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune were the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargain-making. ..."

6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Whereby come Dissident ejected Priests; unconquerable Martyrs according to some, incurable chicaning Traitors according to others. ..."

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