| 词汇 | chin chin |
| 词源 | chin chin. Relatively few Americans have been greeted by anyone using this expression, but it is an oriental English greet- ing often encountered in literature since the early 19th century. There is no connection here with the lower jaw, the word for which derives from the old English cin. Chin chin is just a cor- ruption of the Chinese salutation ts’ing ts’ing. |
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