Chin vs Whin - What's the difference?
chin | whin |
The bottom of a face, especially, the lower jaw or the region below the mouth.
(slang, US) talk.
(slang, British) A falsehood.
(boxing, uncountable) The ability to withstand being punched in the face without being knocked out.
(slang) To talk.
To perform a chin-up.
(UK) To punch (someone)'s chin (part of the body).
Gorse; furze.
* 1790 , '', 1828, Thomas Park (editor), ''Works of the British Poets , Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns,
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), , 1995, Canongate Books,
The plant woad-waxen.
Whinstone.
As nouns the difference between chin and whin
is that chin is the bottom of a face, especially, the lower jaw or the region below the mouth while whin is gorse; furze.As a verb chin
is to talk.As a proper noun Chin
is {{surname|from=Chinese}} of Chinese origin.chin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) chin, from (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* mentumDerived terms
* chin music * chinstrap * chin up * chin-up * double chin * take something on the chinVerb
(chinn)Synonyms
* gabEtymology 2
Shortening of chinchilla.Anagrams
* ----whin
English
Noun
(en noun)page 65,
- By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and meikle stane, / Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; / And through the whins , and by the cairn, / Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; / And near the thorn, aboon the well, / Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.
page 38,
- And sometimes they clambered down […] and saw the whin bushes climb black the white hills beside them and far and away the blink of lights across the moors where folk lay happed and warm.
- (Gray)