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chinch

American

[chinch] / tʃɪntʃ /

noun

chinch bug.
(loosely) a bedbug.

chinch British

/ tʃɪntʃ /

noun

another name for a bedbug

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Etymology

Origin of chinch

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

Example Sentences

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A glass of water or a chinch bug or a copper coin is composed of molecules.

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

Three successive winters favorable to chinch bugs had raised Corn Belt infestation to menacing proportions.

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

He don’t go to chinch or nothing, but he not so quick to judge.

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

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