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pinching en · ADJ

Meanings

1. That pinches, or causes such a sensation
   • It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward. 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

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Deriveds

pinchingly

pinching en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The act of one who or that which pinches.
   • Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush. 2012, Paul Theroux, The Lower River:
2. The act of pinching off new growth.
   • Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10. 1926, Bimonthly Bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, page 139:
3. theft
   • As "Kings of the Covers," they re-recorded happening disks by Elvis ("Heartbreak Hotel") […] and, for their most publicly-known pinching, THE JAYHAWKS ("Stranded In The Jungle"). 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 20:

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Deriveds

penny-pinching

pinching en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of pinch
   form of pinch