Meanings
verbtopinch (third-person singular simple present topinches, present participle topinching, simple past and past participle topinched)
present singular third person topinches · participle present topinching · participle past topinched · past topinched
- obsoletetransitiveTo pinch severely.
Then let them all encircle him about And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]
Origin
Created from to pinch, as if to- (“intensively, severely”) + pinch.
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