Unwilling to spend money; stingy, miserly, or characterized by being overly frugal in an annoying way.
Likely borrowed from Yiddish 'tsjintsh' or related to dialectal English; the word became popular in American English slang, especially in urban communities during the 20th century.
Chinchy is one of those wonderful American slang words that proves language keeps evolving—it started among immigrant communities and is now used across all English-speaking regions!
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