chinch

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood

From Spanish chinche (“bedbug”) or Portuguese chinche, from Latin cimex (“bedbug”). Doublet of cimex.

The Chinch bug begins its terrible ravages in the wheat fields. — Our Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses, A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
Chinch bugs are not as healthy in some places as in others. — The Insect Folk, Morley, Margaret Warner
While I was pondering over the marvelous fact that people can live by breathing so many thousand gallons of air over and over so many thousand times, a whole legion of fleas, chinches, and other animals of a still more forbidding aspect commenced their horrid work, and would probably soon have made an end of me but for a new turn in this most extraordinary affair. — The Land of Thor, J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

bedbug, bed bug, Cimex lectularius

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