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cinchy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɪnt͡ʃi/

Etymology

From cinch + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Very easy; presenting no challenge.
   • “Yes, but it's not as cinchy as it sounds,” I said. 2015, Katy Kelly, Melonhead and the Later Gator Plan:
   • It's cinchy for me, but I still like to read it. 2013, Debbie Miller, Reading with Meaning:
   • She hates rap. Rap is for teeds." "What are teeds, anyway?" "That's cinchy, dude. They're tedious people." 1992, Jerry Oster, Fixin' to Die, page 106:
2. (of a horse) Tending to fight having a girth cinched.
   • Some horses and ponies have "cold backs" or are "cinchy." 1993, Judy Richter, Philip Richter, Pony Talk: A Complete Learning Guide for Young Riders, page 4:
   • Consider the “cinchy" horse. You tighten the girth and he blows up against it. By the same token, if you use a death grip with your legs on your horse's sides to ask him to go forward, he might swell up against you like the cinchy horse and be less forward. 1997, Jane Savoie, That Winning Feeling!: Program Your Mind for Peak Performance, page 100:
   • Plaintiff alleged that defendants were negligent in failing to warn him that the horse was "cinchy." 1986, The Pacific Reporter, page 503:
   • Cinch up smoothly and by degrees to avoid making a horse "cinchy." 2001, Mary Twelveponies, There are No Problem Horses, Only Problem Riders, page 220:

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