CHINCH

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

2.
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.

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