chinch
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of chinch
1615–25; < Spanish chinche < Latin cīmic- (stem of cīmex ) bug
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He likened AAA's crop reduction to chinch bugs, boll weevils and locusts which make scarce "the things for which millions are nightly praying."
From Time Magazine Archive
A glass of water or a chinch bug or a copper coin is composed of molecules.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three successive winters favorable to chinch bugs had raised Corn Belt infestation to menacing proportions.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the newspapers succeed in selling Landon to this country, thus proving to the world that anything can be sold by proper advertising, then Kansas will advertise her chinch bugs and grasshoppers.
From Time Magazine Archive
“They don’t know what a chinch bug or a Hessian fly is up there.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
All the troublesome vermin that ever I heard anybody complain of, are either frogs, snakes, musquitoes, chinches, seed ticks, or red worms, by some called potato lice.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
Lady, dar's one of dem chinches from my bed a-crawlin' over your pretty white dress.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
We have a house to live in now, and de chinches eat us up almos, and we have nuthin' to live on now, jist a little from charity.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Various
All the houses was made of logs and we slept on shuck and grass mattresses what was allus full of chinches.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration
You can't never git de chinches out of dese cotton matt'esses us has to sleep on now days.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
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