pinching
English
Adjective
pinching (comparative more pinching, superlative most pinching)
- That pinches, or causes such a sensation
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- 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.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
Verb
pinching
Noun
pinching (plural pinchings)
- The act of one who or that which pinches.
- 2012, Paul Theroux, The Lower River:
- Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.
- (horticulture) The act of pinching off new growth.
- 1926, Bimonthly Bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, page 139:
- Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10.