Definitions for chinches

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Spelling: [chinch]
IPA: /tʃɪntʃ/

Chinches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in chinches (ccehhins).

Definitions for chinches

noun

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

Origin of chinches

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

Examples for chinches

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for chinches
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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