chinch

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He called a chinch bug a Rhyparochromus, but he saddled his horse without a blanket and put bakin' powder in the sour-dough In the same way that the farmer's wife knew that boys liked gizzards, she knew that Bruce was writhing under the attention and the ridicule He'll be a cattleman like his dad," and she smiled upon him His father shook his head No, he doesn't take hold right.

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  • The DMM 4 / 2 / 2 comes in a rugged 19in housing with an integrated power supply unit, one recording output via two chinch connectors and one master XLR output. —  Broadcast Engineering RSS Feed
  • Ladybugs a great garden helpers because they feed on aphids, chinch bugs, whiteflies, and mites. —  More Hip Than Hippie Podcast
  • In addition, UltimateFlora® Zoysia is resistant to the chinch bug insect, a common pest that attacks and destroys St. Augustine lawns.
  • Chemical control of chinch bug and greenbug on seedling sorghum with seed, soil, and foliar treatments —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • He called a chinch bug a Rhyparochromus, but he saddled his horse without a blanket and put bakin' powder in the sour-dough In the same way that the farmer's wife knew that boys liked gizzards, she knew that Bruce was writhing under the attention and the ridicule He'll be a cattleman like his dad," and she smiled upon him His father shook his head No, he doesn't take hold right. —  The Man from the Bitter Roots
 

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  1. Spanish chinche, from Latin cīmex, cīmic-, bug.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (3)

  1. Early modern English also chince; from Middle English chinche, chynche, variant of chiche, from Old French chiche, niggard, mean, miserly: see chich.
  2. Middle English chinchen; from the adjective
  3. Also improperly chintz; from Spanish Portuguese chinche = Italian cimice, from Latin cimex (cimic-), a bug: see Cimex.
 

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