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Chinch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Chiefly Southern & Midland U.S. See bedbug.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

n. A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Same as chich.

n. Same as chich.

To be niggardly.

n. Same as chinch-bug, 1.

n. The common bedbug, Cimex lectularius.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood

Word Usage

"And if he should get to be master of a Virginia ship which will be very difficult to do a planter that has three or four hundred acres of land and three or four slaves, if he be industrious, may live more comfortably, and leave his family in better Bread, than such a master of a ship can . . .. beforehand, let him begin to chinch, that is buy goods for tobacco and sell. . ."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

bug hemipteran hemipteron hemipterous insect

Variant

chiniz chinch bug chink bug

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