telling, chick

Show phonetics adjective
showing the truth about a situation or showing what someone really thinks:
a telling comment


(WOMAN) noun [C]
SLANG a young woman. This word is considered offensive by many women.
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)



Personal finance in Jane Austen
Dec 20th 2005 From The Economist print edition

“TEN thousand a year, and very likely more! 'Tis as good as a lord.” Mrs Bennet's reaction to her daughter Elizabeth's engagement to Mr Darcy is telling. “Pride and Prejudice”, like all of Jane Austen's books, is about sex and money. But Miss Austen's emphasis on each is different from that of today's chick-litterateurs. Her characters never touch, let alone kiss. And their wealth and income are at least as important in the calculus of courtship as personal tastes and sex appeal.