Chivalrungry

Chivalrous + Hungry. When you are so hungry that you become chivalrous out of natural instinct. Basically the opposite of hangry.

B: *holds door open*
R: So chivalrous.
B: Yeah I’m looking forward to my Chicken Tender Pub Sub.
R: Wow you are really chivalrungry.
H: And they say chivalrunger is dead.

by brandon1046 July 1, 2021

chivalrous stalemate

When two people are trying to pass through a doorway and both insist that the other goes first.

*Two people are trying to walk through a doorway*
"After you."
"No, after you."
"No, no, no. I insist. After you."
Looks like they are stuck in a chivalrous stalemate.

by nonexistent December 9, 2012

drunk chivalry

A term coined by a man named Robert in May of 2015, Drunk Chivalry is the willpower to not make of move on a girl while you are both inebriated. Only a few people can achieve such a state

Guy 1: you could have banged her, you were both so shitfaced.
Guy 2: must have been drunk chivalry

chivalry drunk

by truththebitch October 20, 2015

chivalrous idiot

When you act like a smart ass, and neglect your hoco date in the process.

Andrew Applewhite was being a chivalrous idiot when he spent the whole night talking about etiquette, and wouldn’t give his date his coat. What a dick.

by Slayer5555 October 20, 2018

Clivaz

A particularly objectionable pustule (or pimple) growing on top of a genital wart. Typically develops after too much time spent in Soho restaurants, through a combination of louche living, sedentary positions, and eating in crappy, over-rated restaurants and clubs.

I've got a terrible itch in my pants, Brian. It's my Clivaz flaring up all over again. I'd burst it, but the whole area's so sore, and I'm in public.

by NobbyShuttleworth March 9, 2021

chivala

A chivala is an old slang word used by South Siders and Pisas that insults a man's masculintiy. To call a man a chivala is like calling him a bitch, or a punk, or something feminine and less than a man. A chivala is like a person who drinks dirty toilet water, who will not fight and would rather run or hide than stand up for himself.

"See that chivala over there? I just took all of his shit!"

by Littlewood April 3, 2008

chivalry

From the old French word for knighthood, "chevalerie", the art of being a chevalier (a knight or horseman).
This was originally a system by which mounted warriors were to act, but while service to their people is touched upon the general goal of medieval knights was not saving many a damsel in distress, devotion to God, or enforcing justice; most knights defined chivalry as warfare and obtaining fame and fortune in the name of their king(s) and without any display of cowardice in battle. In a sense, it's hardly different from joining the military for the benefits that it offers, including the money that pours in from the business of war. Chivalry was basically a boy's culture: fighting other men, riding horses, power and profit and the ability to exploit that power.
The modern notion of chivalry as courtesy to women has tenuous links to chivalry as it was originally conceived. Perhaps courtly love (coined in 1883 to describe the worship of a married noblewoman by a lowly troubadour or knight and his vow to do great deeds in her honor) influenced this notion, but courtly love is, for all intents and purposes, adultery (very dangerous to both participants) and to what extent that courtly love was ever practiced remains unknown.

Chivalry, for the most part, was the opposite of the Geneva Convention; it was all about making a profit on war. The image of an honorable knight saving a fair maiden from a dragon is not much more than sheer fantasy, and most of it seems to stem from the Victorian era; the Victorians, in the midst of the Industrial Revolution, looked at the Middle Ages through rose colored glasses as an idyllic place of pre-industrial innocence, projecting their own ideals of men and women onto the knight and the damsel in distress. A real knight in shining armor was actually more like a trained assassin and the local rapist rolled into one and the damsel in distress, a helpless shrinking violet, never really existed.

by Lorelili October 9, 2011