One way to hold this word: a sofa covered in printed cotton, roses everywhere, the colours a little too bright. Standing back, the room looks full and cheerful. Up close, the cloth is thin and the printing is flat — a lot of pattern doing the work that quality would otherwise do. That gap between the busy surface and the thin thing underneath is what the word keeps reaching for, long after the cloth itself has dropped out of the picture.
可以想成一張滿版印花的棉布沙發，上面到處是玫瑰，顏色亮了一點。退開幾步看，整個房間熱熱鬧鬧、很有氣氛。靠近摸，布很薄，印花也平平的——花色很努力，在做本來應該由「品質」來做的事。表面很滿、底子很薄，這中間的落差，就是這個字後來一直在指的東西，即使那塊布早就不在畫面裡了。
From the word’s history
The source gives chintz plus -y, with chintz coming from Hindi छींट, the printed cotton cloth itself.
來源資料寫的是 chintz 加上 -y，而 chintz 來自印地語 छींट，指的就是那種印花棉布。
Wiktionary entry for chintzy, etymology 1 (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1053772187): 'From chintz + -y, from Hindi छींट (chī̃ṭ).'
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