NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• chic elegant and stylish
• chichi affectedly trendy and fashionable
• chignon a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck
• chiming emit a sound
• chin raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar
• chinning raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar
• chino a coarse twilled cotton fabric frequently used for uniforms
• cinch tie a cinch around
• cinching tie a cinch around
• coho fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes
• conch any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip
• gnocchi (Italian) a small dumpling made of potato or flour or semolina that is boiled or baked and is usually served with a sauce or with grated cheese
• high happy and excited and energetic
• hinging attach with a hinge
• hogging a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
• homing orienting or directing homeward or to a destination
• honcho a person who exercises control over workers
• honing sharpen with a hone
• hooch an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor
• inch advance slowly, as if by inches
• inching advance slowly, as if by inches
• mochi
• mooch ask for and get free; be a parasite
• mooching ask for and get free; be a parasite
• nigh not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances