chince
See also: Chince
English
Noun
chince (plural chinces)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of chinch
- 2010, Roy T. Sawyer, America's Wetland: An Environmental and Cultural History, →ISBN, page 72:
- I planted last spring 100 acres of ground in corn, it was in fine order and the season was good, but the chince bug (an enemy I never saw before) attacked it and instead of 1200 barrils I gathered but 600.
- 2011, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
- Drouth, chince–bugs, hail, everything! My garden all cut to pieces like sauerkraut.
- 2014, Lynette Ater Tanner, Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations, →ISBN, page 179:
- Dere wasn't a chince [bedbug] on a one of em. Better not see a chince on a bed.
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- (obsolete) Alternative form of chintz
- 1795, Joseph Hucks, A pedestrian tour through North Wales, letters, page 129:
- Tis true we have sometimes been obliged to cook our own victuals, sometimes to be content with very scanty fare, and sometimes with none at all ; nor were we ever indulged with down beds, chince curtains, or Turkey carpets
- 1842, James Dennistoun, Sir Archibald Steuart Denham, & Margaret Steuart Calderwood, The Coltness Collections, page 140:
- It is not a chince, I do assure you, it is an English cotton, which I value much more.
- 1857, William Makepeace Thackeray, Burlesques:
- All the old women had peaked ats, and crooked cains, and chince gowns tucked into the pockits of their quiltid petticoats;
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Usage notes
- This spelling is now proscribed and chinch (for the insect) or chintz (for the cloth) is used instead.