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Batty boy. In Jamaican Patois, batty boy (also batty bwoy, batty man, and chi chi bwoy/man) is a slur often used to refer to a gay or effeminate man. [1] The term batiman (or battyman) is also used in Belize owing to the popularity of Jamaican music there. [2][3] The term derives from the Jamaican slang word batty, which refers to buttocks. [4]
This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...
Chi (Chinese: 螭; pinyin: chī; Wade–Giles: ch'ih) means either "a hornless dragon " or "a mountain demon" (namely, chīmèi 螭魅) in Chinese mythology. Hornless dragons were a common motif in ancient Chinese art, and the chiwen 螭吻 (lit. "hornless-dragon mouth") was an imperial roof decoration in traditional Chinese architecture.
Teochew[ii], also known as Teo-Swa (or Chaoshan) [iii], is a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world. It is sometimes referred to as Chiuchow, its Cantonese rendering, due to English romanization by colonial officials and explorers.
In physics, denotes electric or magnetic susceptibility. In rhetoric, both chiastic structure (a literary device) and the figure of speech Chiasmus derive from their names from the shape of the letter Chi. In mechanical engineering, chi is used as a symbol for the reduction factor of relevant buckling loads in the EN 1993, a European Standard ...
Pan (granddaughter) Goku Jr. (descendant; Dragon Ball GT) Chi-Chi (Japanese: チチ, Hepburn: Chichi), sometimes written as Chi Chi or Chichi, is a fictional character from the Dragon Ball media franchise. Created by Akira Toriyama, she first appears in Chapter #11 of the Dragon Ball manga entitled "...And into the Fire!".
Chinwe is a name given by the Igbo people of South-Eastern Nigeria to both sexes but more commonly to girls. It means "God owns" ( Chi = God, nwe = owns) and is a shortened form the ending of which can present in a number of ways depending on the intentions behind the naming [1] For example: It is affectionately shortened to 'Chichi' or just ...
Chichimeca. Chichimeca (Spanish: [tʃitʃiˈmeka] ⓘ) is the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to nomadic and semi- nomadic peoples who were established in present-day Bajío region of Mexico. Chichimeca carried the same meaning as the Roman term "barbarian" that described Germanic tribes. The name, with its pejorative ...