Alexa, who is Kinch?

[Mal]

"A cybernetic species invented by the Wani."

[Serial_Apologist]

The only Kinch I have heard of is Soweto Kinch, a very good Birmingham-based jazz alto saxophonist and pioneer in jazz/Rap crossover.

[Joseph K]

The only Kinch I have heard of is Soweto Kinch, a very good Birmingham-based jazz alto saxophonist and pioneer in jazz/Rap crossover.

Ditto.

[Mal]

Kinch is the nickname of Stephen Dedalus, James Joyce's literary alter ego in Ulysses. But where does it come from? Some commentators suggest it is the sound of a knife penetrating flesh. But is this believable? Maybe penetrating a lung? The "ch" involves a quick, strong expiration of air through a narrow gap.

Help, Google...

Kinch - Scottish for a noose in a rope. (Merriam-Webster)
Kinch - A slip-knot; figuratively, a hold; an advantage. To twist a cord about, as about the tongue or nose of a horse.
Kinching - refers to child pickpockets Ca. 1800. (Urban Dictionary).
Kinch - The act of freaking-out, becoming anxious, and/or panicking about something or someone (Urban Dictionary).

[Pulcinella]

Is he (it?) related to the Grinch (who stole Christmas)?

[LHC]

Kinch is the nickname of Stephen Dedalus, James Joyce's literary alter ego in Ulysses. But where does it come from? Some commentators suggest it is the sound of a knife penetrating flesh. But is this believable? Maybe penetrating a lung? The "ch" involves a quick, strong expiration of air through a narrow gap.

Help, Google...

Kinch - Scottish for a noose in a rope. (Merriam-Webster)
Kinch - A slip-knot; figuratively, a hold; an advantage. To twist a cord about, as about the tongue or nose of a horse.
Kinching - refers to child pickpockets Ca. 1800. (Urban Dictionary).
Kinch - The act of freaking-out, becoming anxious, and/or panicking about something or someone (Urban Dictionary).

In the novel Mulligan states that he is the source of nickname of 'Kinch' for Stephen Dedalus: “my name for you is the best: Kinch, the knife-blade.”

Richard Ellmann states that Oliver Gogarty gave this name to Joyce and remarks that this was because it imitated “the cutting sound of a knife”.

The fact that Mulligan associates the name with a knife blade in Ulysses suggests that this explanation has some merit.