pinche

[ peen-chey ]

adjective

damned; lousy; blasted: With all this self-promotion you sound like a pinche public radio station during a fund drive!
cheap or stingy.

adverb

damned; blasted (used as an intensifier before an adjective): They don't realize how pinche hard it is to learn to speak English.

noun

Sometimes Disparaging. a menial worker, such as one who works in a kitchen.
a cheap or stingy person; penny pincher; tightwad.

Origin of pinche

First recorded in 1970–75; from Spanish, adjective and noun derivative of pinchar “to poke, prick,” variation (with influence of picar “to bite, sting”) of punchar “to punch,” from Vulgar Latin punctiāre (unrecorded), verb derivative of Latin pūnctus “a prick, sting”; see puncture

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Other definitions for pinche (2 of 2)

pinche²

[ peen-chey ]

noun

a tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) native to Colombia with a long, manelike tuft of white hair: now endangered.

Origin of pinche

First recorded in 1740–50; from French pinché, of uncertain origin

Also called cot·ton-top tam·a·rin [kot-n-top tam-uh-rin], /ˈkɒt nˌtɒp ˈtæm ə rɪn/, red-tailed mon·key [red-teyld muhng kee] /ˈrɛdˌteɪld ˈmʌŋ ki/ .

How to use pinche in a sentence

For if it pinche, as the bite of a dogge: it shalbe no more a Jeste but a wronge.
A Renaissance Courtesy-book | Giovanni Della Casa
They had been obtained from a pinche monkey (Hapale dipus) from New Granada.
Parasites | T. Spencer Cobbold
But the little marmosets and the pinche monkey, all in a cage together, are chiefly interesting here.
The Strand Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 41, May, 1894 | Various

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