'Chinch' definitions:
Definition of 'chinch'
(from WordNet)
noun
Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood [syn: bedbug, bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius]
Definition of 'Chinch'
From: GCIDE
- Chinch \Chinch\, n. [Cf. Sp. chinche, fr. L. cimex.]
- 1. (Zool.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius). [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]