chinch
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chinch
1615–25; < Spanish chinche < Latin cīmic- (stem of cīmex ) bug
Example Sentences
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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
The chinch bugs assaulted the scraggly grain stalks, and the grasshoppers swarmed.
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
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
There were chinch bugs and grasshoppers, months of drought, elections, slavery, secession, talk of war—the adult world of trouble, though, was not real enough to dim the goodness of an April morning.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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