cinchy
English
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[edit]cinchy (comparative more cinchy, superlative most cinchy)
- (informal) Very easy; presenting no challenge.
- 1992, Jerry Oster, Fixin' to Die, page 106:
- She hates rap. Rap is for teeds." "What are teeds, anyway?" "That's cinchy, dude. They're tedious people."
- 2013, Debbie Miller, Reading with Meaning:
- It's cinchy for me, but I still like to read it.
- 2015, Katy Kelly, Melonhead and the Later Gator Plan:
- “Yes, but it's not as cinchy as it sounds,” I said.
- (of a horse) Tending to fight having a girth cinched.
- 1986, The Pacific Reporter, page 503:
- Plaintiff alleged that defendants were negligent in failing to warn him that the horse was "cinchy."
- 1997, Jane Savoie, That Winning Feeling!: Program Your Mind for Peak Performance, page 100:
- 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.
- 1993, Judy Richter, Philip Richter, Pony Talk: A Complete Learning Guide for Young Riders, page 4:
- Some horses and ponies have "cold backs" or are "cinchy."
- 2001, Mary Twelveponies, There are No Problem Horses, Only Problem Riders, page 220:
- Cinch up smoothly and by degrees to avoid making a horse "cinchy."