pinching
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pinching
adjective more pinching · most pinching
- 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.
verb
- present participle and gerund of pinch
noun pinchings
- 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.
- 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.
- 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").
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: twinge, tweak, squeeze, swipe, vellicate, crimp, speck, touch, catch, snarf, lift, top, sneak, filch, nobble, apprehension
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