chinche

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃint͡ʃe/ [ˈt͡ʃinʲ.t͡ʃɪ]
• Rhymes: -intʃe
• Hyphenation: chin‧che

chinche f (plural chinches)

1. bug, a member of the insect order Hemiptera

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃint͡ʃe/ [ˈt͡ʃĩnʲ.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -intʃe
• Syllabification: chin‧che

Borrowed from Mozarabic *činče, from Latin cīmicem. Compare Old Spanish çisme. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “development of thumbtack sense”)

chinche f (plural chinches)

1. bedbug
2. (by extension) An annoying person, a pest
3. thumbtack

   Synonyms: tachuela, chincheta

Minced oath of pinche (“fucking, damned”, intensifier).

chinche m or f (masculine and feminine plural chinches)

1. (Mexico, minced oath, colloquial) fricking, dang

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chinche

1. inflection of chinchar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “chinche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “chinche”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 362