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chinch bug
noun
- a small lygaeid bug, Blissus leucopterus, that feeds on corn, wheat, and other grains.
chinch bug
noun
- a black-and-white tropical American heteropterous insect, Blissus leucopterus, that is very destructive to grasses and cereals in the US: family Lygaeidae
- a related and similar European insect, Ischnodemus sabuleti
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chinch bug1
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
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Example Sentences
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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Ain't de chinch-bug done et up de wheat, jes' as I tole yer?
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Write to the Division of Entomology, Washington, for bulletins on the chinch bug.
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