different between cincher vs cinch

English

Etymology

cinch +? -er

Noun

cincher (plural cinchers)

1. Something that cinches as in holds and fastens, such as a belt or corset.
2. Something that proves a point or concludes a story

   Now comes the cincher...

3. A waist cincher (type of corset).

Derived terms

• waist cincher

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Occitan cencha or Spanish cincha (“a belt or girth”), from Late Latin cingula, from Latin cingulum. Doublet of cingle.

Noun

cinch (plural cinches)

1. A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
   • 1915, B. M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand

     He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question.

2. (informal) Something that is very easy to do.
   • 1913, Major Archibald Lee Fletcher, Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns

     We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that.

   • 2003, Clive Selwood, All the Moves (but None of the Licks) (page 33)

     The job was a snap. I travelled the country averaging a thousand miles a week and, since the previous incumbent had been a lazy bugger, managed to treble the business. It was a cinch.

3. (informal) Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
4. (informal) A firm hold.
   • 1916, Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale,

     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.

Synonyms

• (something that is very easy to do): piece of cake, breeze, See also Thesaurus:easy thing
• (something certain to occur): See Thesaurus:sure thing

Translations

Verb

cinch (third-person singular simple present cinches, present participle cinching, simple past and past participle cinched)

1. To bring to certain conclusion.
2. To tighten down.

Quotations

• 1911, "I intend to cinch that government business." — Margaret Burnham, The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise
• 2016, Christopher Kelly, The Pink Bus. Mapple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press. p. 49.

  "You know I've been thinking about your idea, and I think we should vote for each other," Patrick said, hoping that maybe this would be enough to cinch an actual friendship with Baffi--something that suddenly felt more important to Patrick than anything else in the world.

Derived terms

• cincher

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare senses at etymology 1 (a girth, a tight grip), perhaps suggesting the tactics used in the game; or perhaps from Spanish cinco (“five”), the five spots of the colour of the trump being important cards.

Noun

cinch (plural cinches)

1. (card games) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.

Synonyms

• double Pedro
• high five

Verb

cinch (third-person singular simple present cinches, present participle cinching, simple past and past participle cinched)

1. (card games) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.

Ladin

Alternative forms

• cin

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cinque, from Latin qu?nque.

Adjective

cinch

1. five

Noun

cinch m (uncountable)

1. five