chinche

See also: chinché

Galician

Pronunciation

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

Noun

chinche f (plural chinches)

1. bug, a member of the insect order Hemiptera

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mozarabic *činče, from Latin cīmicem. Compare Old Spanish çisme.

Noun

chinche f (plural chinches)

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

   Synonyms: tachuela, chincheta

Derived terms

• caer como chinches
• chinche de la calabaza
• chinche de la malva arbórea
• chinche metálica
• chinche y telepate
• chinchoso

 

Related terms

• chisme

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chinche

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