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Galician
Pronunciation
Noun
chinche f (plural chinches)
- bug, a member of the insect order Hemiptera
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃint͡ʃe/
- Rhymes: -intʃe
- Syllabification: chin‧che
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Mozarabic *činče, from Latin cīmicem. Compare Old Spanish çisme.
Noun
chinche f (plural chinches)
- bedbug
- (by extension) An annoying person, a pest
- thumbtack
- Synonyms: tachuela, chincheta
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
chinche
- inflection of chinchar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “chinche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “chinche”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 362