Middle English Dictionary Entry
chiche n.
Entry Info
| Forms | chiche n. Also cheche. |
| Etymology | OF chiche (from L cicer). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. cicer.
1.
The chickpea.
Associated quotations
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.40 : Take chiches and wry hem in ashes al nyȝt..seeþ hem up and do þerto oyle, garlec, [etc.].
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)2 Kings 17.28 : Benys and lente and fried chichis [WB(2): cycer].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)41a/b : Iuse of chechez with water of barly.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)90b/a : A pustule lich a cheche [L cicerali].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)148a/b : Aqua cicerum i. water of chechez.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)156a/b : Perry of chiches [L pureta cicerum].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)157a/a : Water of þe sethinge of blak chyches.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)189b/a : Mele of chiches [L orobi].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)189b/b : Mele of chiches [L ciceris].
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.857 : The thridde amonge his wortis chicchis [L cicer] sowith.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)2.33 : Now chiches [L cicerula] sowe in faat & moyst lond.