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Definitions and meaning of pinch

pinch

Etymology

From Middle English pinchen, from Old Northern French *pinchier (compare Old French pincier, pincer (“to pinch”)), a word of uncertain origin, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pinciāre (“to puncture, pinch”), from a merger of *punctiāre (“to puncture, sting”), from Latin punctiō (“a puncture, prick”) and *piccāre (“to strike, sting”), from Frankish *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick”). More at point, pick and pitch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪnt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɪntʃ

Verb

pinch (third-person singular simple present pinches, present participle pinching, simple past and past participle pinched)

1. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

2. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
3. To squeeze between two objects.
4. (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
5. (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
6. (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
7. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
8. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
9. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
10. (obsolete, intransitive) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
    • 1788, Benjamin Franklin (attributed), Paper

      the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare

11. (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
12. (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
13. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
14. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
    • 1809, Alexander Chalmers ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to Geoffrey Chaucer, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":

      Therefore who so them accuse

      Of any double entencion,

      To speake, rowne, other to muse,

      To pinch at their condicion,

      All is but false collusion,

      I dare rightwell the sothe express,

      They have no better protection,

      But shrowd them vnder doubleness.

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Noun

pinch (plural pinches)

1. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
2. A close compression of anything with the fingers.

   I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.

3. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.

   Mix about four cups of white flour with a pinch of salt.

4. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
5. A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
6. An organic herbal smoke additive.
7. (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
9. The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
10. (slang) An arrest.

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• → Japanese: ピンチ (pinchi)

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