Obs. Also 4–5 chyncherie, 4 chyngerie, 5 chyncery, -chery. [f. CHINCHER + -Y.] Miserliness, avarice.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Melibeus, ¶ 634. Bycause of his skarseté and chyncherie.
a. 1420. Occleve, De Reg. Princ., 4743. Effect withe no wrecched chyncherie.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 75. Chyncery [1499 chincherye or scar(s)nesse], parcimonia.
1483. Cath. Angl., 63. Chinchery, tenacitas.
