Cinch vs Minch - What's the difference?
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A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
* He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch , and he went straight at the mooted question. — B. M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand
(informal) Something that is very easy to do.
* "We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that." — Major Archibald Lee Fletcher, Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns
(informal) A firm hold.
* You've got the cinch on him. You could send him to quod, and I'd send him there as quick as lightning. I'd hang him, if I could, for what he done to Lil Sarnia. — Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale,
To bring to certain conclusion.
To tighten down.
A strait of Scotland, between the north-west Highlands and the northern Inner Hebrides.
That plough the stormy sea
The whole year round,
On the fishing grounds
Of the Northern Minch and the Norway Deeps,
On the banks and knolls of the North Sea holes,
Where the herring shoals are found.
As nouns the difference between cinch and minch
is that cinch is a simple saddle girth used in mexico while minch is (obsolete) a nun.As a verb cinch
is to bring to certain conclusion.cinch
English
Noun
(es)- No problem ... it's a cinch .
Synonyms
* (something that is very easy to do) See also (an activity that is easy) * breeze * cakewalk * doddle * piece of cake * walk in the park * walkoverVerb
Quotations
* 1911', ''"I intend to '''cinch that government business."'' — Margaret Burnham, ''The Girl Aviators' Sky CruiseDerived terms
* cincherminch
English
(The Minch)Proper noun
Quotations
* 1750 , Francis Grant,A Letter to a Member of Parliament Concerning the Free British Fisheries, page 21: *: The best Place for a Staple [of herrings], would be at Stornway'', in one of the ''Lewis'' Islands, which is a good Harbour, and there are many good Hands; also it lies open to the ''Minch'' , a Sea above sixty Miles over to the main Land of ''Scotland'', to the Southward of which lies the Isle of ''Sky , … * 1799 , Revd. James Headrick, On the Practicability, and Advantages, of Opening a Navigation Between the Murray Firth at Inverness, and Loch Eil, at Fort William'', section II ''Fisheries'', from
''Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland, Volume 1, page 388: *: That extensive bason of sea, called the Great, and the Little Minch ; bounded on the west, by that chain of islands, called the Long Island , because they seem but one, when viewed at a distance; on the east, by the indented shores of Scotland: from the butt of the Lewis, to the Mull of Kintire, never fails to be filled, every year, with an immense body of herrings. * 1960 , Ewan MacColl, Singing the Fishing (
transcript): *: Come all you gallant fishermen,
That plough the stormy sea
The whole year round,
On the fishing grounds
Of the Northern Minch and the Norway Deeps,
On the banks and knolls of the North Sea holes,
Where the herring shoals are found.