What about Suave and Chic?

My sixth sense tells me that there’s some speculation on the title of this blog, and now I am going to clear things up!

Get your pen and paper ready ;)

Lesson 1: Suave

'Suave’ is pronounced swäv  

'Suave' is not exactly a regularly used word, unlike refined, polished, pleasant, civil, courteous, gracious, tactful, sophisticated (I could go on and on), by the way, all these words are synonyms of Suave.  

According to the oxford dictionary, ‘Suave’ dates back to the late Middle English, and comes from old French, or from Latin suavis, which means ‘agreeable’. The current sense is said to date back to the mid 19^th century. Another said origin of Suave: is said to date back to 1495-1505. However, the Merriam-webster dictionary states it first known use to be in 1831. 

Well, wherever the origin came from, does not change the meaning. ‘Suave’ is especially used for men… but it is NOT gender specific, so no need for this: 

I see you want to learn more, hahaha...

So, suave means: Charming, confident, and elegant follow the oxford dictionary link It also means smoothly agreeable or polite, agreeably or blandly urbane you can find this in dictionary.com. A third definition for Suave is displaying smoothness and sophistication in manner or attitude; urbane. Look up here.

 Now, I love this piece from vocabulary.com: ‘To be suave is to be smooth, polite, a little bit cool with a splash of lime. Men can be suave and debonair, especially the ones riding horses on the covers of Romance novels’.

It goes on to say ‘a suave person knows how to work the room, and you might want to appear suave and sophisticated when you meet your sweetie’s parents’.

So, that’s about it for suave… (thank me later)

Lesson 2: Chic (now this should be easy ;)

'Chic' is pronounced / /ʃiːk/. In easier terms: 'sheek'

Well, the origin is said to date back to 1855-60, of French, and probably German, a word called Schick, which means skill.  

The oxford dictionary defines ‘chic’ as stylishness and elegance of a specified kind. Click here to read more. ‘Chic’ has also been defined as ‘Sophistication in dress and manner; elegance’. You can read more here

Interesting to note that ‘chic’ is synonymous to words like: classy, dapper, tasteful, exclusive, posh, dashing…the list goes on and on.

So, why is this blog named ‘suave and chic’? … I have done enough teaching for now, so the rest is your assignment  (*grins*)