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chinch
[ chinch ]
chinch
/ tʃɪntʃ /
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chinch1
1615–25; < Spanish chinche < Latin cīmic- (stem of cīmex ) bug
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chinch1
C17: from Spanish chinche, from Latin cīmex bug
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Example Sentences
Found them so popular that he took on chinch bugs at a nickel, and fairly coined money.
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Proletarians for the most part wish, chinch-bug fashion, to crawl into the Elysian fields now occupied by the hated capitalists.
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Such well-known insects as the Bed-bug and Chinch-bug belong here.
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The chinch bug alone has demonstrated his power to devastate the wheat fields.
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For two years the crop had been almost wholly destroyed by chinch bugs.
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