cinchy

adj — 2 senses

cinchy

adj

/ˈsɪnt͡ʃi/

Etymology From cinch + -y.

1

Informal Very easy; presenting no challenge.

  • She hates rap. Rap is for teeds." "What are teeds, anyway?" "That's cinchy, dude. They're tedious people."1992, Jerry Oster, Fixin' to Die, page 106:
  • It's cinchy for me, but I still like to read it.2013, Debbie Miller, Reading with Meaning:
1 more example
  • “Yes, but it's not as cinchy as it sounds,” I said.2015, Katy Kelly, Melonhead and the Later Gator Plan:
2

Of a horse Tending to fight having a girth cinched.

  • Plaintiff alleged that defendants were negligent in failing to warn him that the horse was "cinchy."1986, The Pacific Reporter, page 503:
  • 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.1997, Jane Savoie, That Winning Feeling!: Program Your Mind for Peak Performance, page 100:
2 more examples
  • Some horses and ponies have "cold backs" or are "cinchy."1993, Judy Richter, Philip Richter, Pony Talk: A Complete Learning Guide for Young Riders, page 4:
  • Cinch up smoothly and by degrees to avoid making a horse "cinchy."2001, Mary Twelveponies, There are No Problem Horses, Only Problem Riders, page 220:

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