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