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Chinche

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See chinch.
  • noun. A name of the common American skunk, Mephitis mephitica. Also cinche.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Parsimonious; niggardly.
  • Word Usage
    "I have since been informed that chinche is Spanish for bug; but at the time the word suggested only the material of a curtain."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning