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chinch

American  
[chinch] / tʃɪntʃ /

noun

  1. chinch bug.

  2. (loosely) a bedbug.

chinch British  
/ tʃɪntʃ /

noun

  1. another name for a bedbug

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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

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

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

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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