cinchy

English

Etymology

cinch +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪnt͡ʃi/
• Hyphenation: cinchy

Adjective

cinchy (comparative more cinchy, superlative most cinchy)

1. (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.

2. (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."

Anagrams

• chincy