chinch

[ chinch ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

chinch

/ tʃɪntʃ /

Origin of chinch¹

1615–25; < Spanish chinche < Latin cīmic- (stem of cīmex ) bug

Origin of chinch¹

C17: from Spanish chinche, from Latin cīmex bug

Found them so popular that he took on chinch bugs at a nickel, and fairly coined money.

Proletarians for the most part wish, chinch-bug fashion, to crawl into the Elysian fields now occupied by the hated capitalists.

Such well-known insects as the Bed-bug and Chinch-bug belong here.

The chinch bug alone has demonstrated his power to devastate the wheat fields.

For two years the crop had been almost wholly destroyed by chinch bugs.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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