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pinche

1

[ peen-chey ]

adjective

  1. damned; lousy; blasted:

    With all this self-promotion you sound like a pinche public radio station during a fund drive!

  2. cheap or stingy.


adverb

  1. damned; blasted (used as an intensifier before an adjective):

    They don't realize how pinche hard it is to learn to speak English.

noun

  1. Sometimes Disparaging. a menial worker, such as one who works in a kitchen.
  2. a cheap or stingy person; penny pincher; tightwad.

pinche

2

[ peen-chey ]

noun

  1. a tamarin ( Saguinus oedipus ) native to Colombia with a long, manelike tuft of white hair: now endangered.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pinche1

First recorded in 1970–75; from Spanish, adjective and noun derivative of pinchar “to poke, prick,” variation (with influence of picar “to bite, sting”) of punchar “to punch,” from Vulgar Latin punctiāre (unrecorded), verb derivative of Latin pūnctus “a prick, sting”; puncture ( def )

Origin of pinche2

First recorded in 1740–50; from French pinché, of uncertain origin
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Example Sentences

For if it pinche, as the bite of a dogge: it shalbe no more a Jeste but a wronge.

They had been obtained from a pinche monkey (Hapale dipus) from New Granada.

But the little marmosets and the Pinche monkey, all in a cage together, are chiefly interesting here.

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