Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See chinch.
  • noun A name of the common American skunk, Mephitis mephitica. Also cinche.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Parsimonious; niggardly.

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Examples

  • I have since been informed that chinche is Spanish for bug; but at the time the word suggested only the material of a curtain.

    Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832

  • Chinches bravas -- Surely you have heard of the Volkswagon chinche?

    Two Expressions 2008

  • Chinches bravas -- Surely you have heard of the Volkswagon chinche?

    Two Expressions 2008

  • Chinches bravas -- Surely you have heard of the Volkswagon chinche?

    Two Expressions 2008

  • Chinches bravas -- Surely you have heard of the Volkswagon chinche?

    Two Expressions 2008

  • Chinches bravas -- Surely you have heard of the Volkswagon chinche?

    Two Expressions 2008

  • Chinches bravas -- Surely you have heard of the Volkswagon chinche?

    Two Expressions 2008

  • Chinches bravas -- Surely you have heard of the Volkswagon chinche?

    Two Expressions 2008

  • Chinches bravas -- Surely you have heard of the Volkswagon chinche?

    Two Expressions 2008

  • Chinches bravas -- Surely you have heard of the Volkswagon chinche?

    Two Expressions 2008

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