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pinprick en · NOUN

Etymology

From pin + prick.

Meanings

1. An insignificant puncture made by a pin or similar point.
2. A mildly annoying wound or damage.
3. A very tiny dot.
   • The stars were pinpricks of light in a clear night sky.

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Translations (7)

pl drobny kłopot (a mildly annoying wound or damage) · bg леко убождане (an insignificant puncture made by a pin or similar point) · hu tűszúrás (an insignificant puncture made by a pin or similar point) · ru прокол (an insignificant puncture made by a pin or similar point) · bg дребна неприятност (a mildly annoying wound or damage) · de Nadelstich (an insignificant puncture made by a pin or similar point) · pl nakłucie (an insignificant puncture made by a pin or similar point)

pinprick en · VERB

Etymology

From pin + prick.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To produce a jabbing sensation, like a pinprick, in.
   • The water pinpricked her face as she stepped into the shower.
2. (transitive) To puncture with a tiny hole or holes.
   • By now it was dark, velvety dark with a moon, a darkness pinpricked by the lights from the landing place now drawing rapidly closer. 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 144:
   • He had always had to repress the urge to pinprick her enthusiasms. 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 164:

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