chinch
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of chinch
1615–25; < Spanish chinche < Latin cīmic- (stem of cīmex ) bug
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Relatively impervious to either drought, damp or chinch bug, amenable to almost any type of soil, the bean's chief enemies are rabbits, grasshoppers, blister beetles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three successive winters favorable to chinch bugs had raised Corn Belt infestation to menacing proportions.
From Time Magazine Archive
A glass of water or a chinch bug or a copper coin is composed of molecules.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chinch bugs assaulted the scraggly grain stalks, and the grasshoppers swarmed.
From Time Magazine Archive
He don’t go to chinch or nothing, but he not so quick to judge.
From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
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
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
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 Beverley, Robert
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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