pinprick
See also: pin-prick
English
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Etymology
Noun
pinprick (plural pinpricks)
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Verb
pinprick (third-person singular simple present pinpricks, present participle pinpricking, simple past and past participle pinpricked)
- (transitive) To produce a jabbing sensation, like a pinprick, in.
- The water pinpricked her face as she stepped into the shower.
- (transitive) To puncture.
- 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 164:
- He had always had to repress the urge to pinprick her enthusiasms.