chacne
English
Etymology
Noun
chacne (uncountable)
- (informal) Acne located on the chest.
- Synonym: chestne
- [2002, Nick McDonell, Twelve, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 60:
- Chacne is the name for pimples on the chest; bacne, the name for pimples on the back.]
- 2004, Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 183:
- He's trying to roast the "chacne"—chest zits—off in the harsh Iraqi sun, while busting bass beats with his lips, chanting Ice Cube's lyrics, "Today I didn't even have to use my AK/I gotta say it was a good day."
- 2019, Tommy Pico, Feed, Portland, O.R.: Tin House Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- I knew from the beginning I wasn't bringing Proxima Centauri b home mostly bc I'm sportig the largest chest zit (or chacne) in American history […]
- 2020 May 13, Brooke Shunatona, “Chest Acne: How to Get Rid of and Prevent Breakouts on Your Boobs”, in Cosmopolitan[1], New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 November 2023:
- Below, answers to all your questions about getting rid of your chacne (ugh, never mind), so you can go back to worrying about bigger problems.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chacne.