ChycLit: February 2007

Chick lit [t∫Ik lIt] noun informal 1 literature, more accurately, “genre fiction,” primarily by, for, and about women, notorious for its “hip, stylish female protagonists, usually in their twenties and thirties, in urban settings” and its focus on “their love lives and struggles in business...The books usually feature an airy, irreverent tone...”[1] 2 pun on Chiclets, a candy-coated chewing gum.[1, 2] (chick ME abbrev. of chicken, Am. Slang for young woman; lit abbrev. of literature, from Latin litteratura) [1, 3, 4]

ChycLit [t∫IklIt] noun 1 var. of CHICK LIT 2 literature, more accurately, Chiclet-like blog entries in the life writing tradition (Chyc abbrev. of Ukr. Chychota, surname; lit abbrev. of literature, from Latin litteratura) [3, 4]

[1] “Chick lit,” Wikipedia
[2] The Victory Old-time Candy Store
[3] Gage Canadian Dictionary. Vancouver: Canada Publishing Corporation, 1997.
[4] Canadian Oxford Dictionary. 2nd ed. Don Mills, ON: Oxford UP, 2004.

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