chinches

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of chinch.
  chinch

  noun

  chinch bug.

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chinches

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

Immediately the chinches disappeared and not one could be found, although one could gather than by handfuls before, as they say.”

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

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

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

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

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