chinch

[ chinch ]

noun

1. chinch bug.
2. (loosely) a bedbug.

chinch

/ tʃɪntʃ /

noun

1. another name for a bedbug

Word History and Origins

Origin of chinch¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of chinch¹

C17: from Spanish chinche, from Latin cīmex bug

Example Sentences

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

From Literature

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in chinch?

From Literature

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 Literature

I had felt faint in the hot sun many times myself and had seen chinch bugs eat up whole fields of wheat, and yet I did not want to die.

From Project Gutenberg

All the houses was made of logs and we slept on shuck and grass mattresses what was allus full of chinches.

From Project Gutenberg