Definitions for chinch

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IPA: /tʃɪntʃ/

Chinch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in chinch (cchhin).

Definitions for chinch

noun

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

Origin of chinch

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

Examples for chinch

It takes over twenty-four thousand chinch bugs to weigh one ounce.

The chinch bug begins its terrible ravages in the wheat fields.

For two years the crop had been almost wholly destroyed by chinch bugs.

In Orange county, North Carolina, farmers were once obliged to suspend wheat-growing for two years on account of the chinch bug.

Unfortunately we cannot prevent all of the damage done by chinch bugs, but we can diminish it somewhat by good clean agriculture.

The chinch bug alone has demonstrated his power to devastate the wheat fields.

The grain growers are losing over one hundred million dollars a year on account of the work of the chinch bug.

Found them so popular that he took on chinch bugs at a nickel, and fairly coined money.

The chinch bugs might bother everyone else, but Martin seemed to be able to guard against them with fair success.

Oniscus asellus was sometimes called "socchetre," "church louse," and "chinch."

Word Value for chinch
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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