Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be stingy; be miserly; grudge.
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Examples
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My hinch is that they will make some noise for a while and then move on to the next flavor of the month or monster truck rally which ever man come first ….
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March 24th, 2010 at 9: 04 pm dbadass says: hinch man?
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Connacht woman, but an out-and-out Connamara quean, and when only thirteen had wrought with the lads who used to make the raal cratur on the islands between Ochterard and Bally na hinch.
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I've fought over every hinch o 'this perishin' country, an 'tyke it from me, guv'nor, there ain't
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909
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_ Ay, forsooth, he's a child, you must conceive, and must be used tenderly; he was never in such an assembly before, forsooth, but once at the Warmoll Quest, forsooth, where he said grace as prettily as any of the sheriff's hinch-boys, forsooth.
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He remembered when he brought her first to Worsted Skeynes thirty-four years ago, "That timid, and like a rose, but a lady every hinch, the love!" as his old nurse had said.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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Now that he had not got her, for the first time Mr. Pendyce realised that she had not grown old, that she was still to him "timid, and like a rose, but a lady every hinch, the love!"
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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Now that he had not got her, for the first time Mr. Pendyce realised that she had not grown old, that she was still to him "timid, and like a rose, but a lady every hinch, the love!"
The Country House John Galsworthy 1900
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Skeynes thirty-four years ago, "That timid, and like a rose, but a lady every hinch, the love!" as his old nurse had said.
The Country House John Galsworthy 1900
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As a wise friend once remarked to me, "Give some men a hinch, and they'll always try to take a hell."
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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