PINCHE Definition & Meaning

pinche

[peen-chey]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

pinche

[peen-chey]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of pinche¹

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 ��ܲԳ��پ�� (unrecorded), verb derivative of Latin ��ū�Գ��ٳܲ� “a prick, sting”; puncture ( def. )

Origin of pinche²

First recorded in 1740–50; from French �辱�Գ��é, of uncertain origin

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Example Sentences

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But my parent’s generation — who, to this day, come back from the motherland lugging suitcases stuffed with local cheeses, edible seeds, chiles and candies — never needed any pinche lessons.

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But the pinche pandemic just doesn’t want to leave Latino life.

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pinchcock pincheck

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