chin
Plural: chins
Noun
- the protruding part of the lower jaw
- Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India
- The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
- Talk.
- A lie, a falsehood.
- A person of the upper class.
- The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
- The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
- The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.
- A chinchilla.
Verb
Verb Forms: chinned, chinning, chins
- To pull oneself up until one's chin is above a bar.
- raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar
- To talk.
- To talk to or with (someone).
- To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar).
- To punch or hit (someone), especially on the chin (part of the body).
- To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.
- To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.
- To put one's chin on (something).
- To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.
Examples
- He hoped to chin a high score by extending his word vertically.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Antonyms
glass chin, glass jaw
Scrabble Score: 9
chin: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordchin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
chin: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary