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Chinch
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
2. 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.