pinch

Etymology
From, from (compare 🇨🇬, ), a word of  origin, possibly from , from a merger of , from  and , from , from. More at, and.

Verb

 * 1) To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
 * 2) To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
 * 3) To squeeze between two objects.
 * 4)  Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
 * 5)  To steal, usually something inconsequential.
 * 6)  To arrest or capture.
 * 7)  To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
 * 8)  To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
 * 9)  To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
 * 10)  To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
 * 11) * 1788, (attributed), Paper
 * the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare
 * 1)  To seize; to grip; to bite.
 * 2)  To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
 * 3) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
 * 4)  To complain or find fault.
 * 5) * 1809, ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":
 * Therefore who so them accuse
 * Of any double entencion,
 * To speake, rowne, other to muse,
 * To pinch at their condicion,
 * All is but false collusion,
 * I dare rightwell the sothe express,
 * They have no better protection,
 * But shrowd them vnder doubleness.
 * 1) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
 * 2)  To complain or find fault.
 * 3) * 1809, ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":
 * Therefore who so them accuse
 * Of any double entencion,
 * To speake, rowne, other to muse,
 * To pinch at their condicion,
 * All is but false collusion,
 * I dare rightwell the sothe express,
 * They have no better protection,
 * But shrowd them vnder doubleness.
 * All is but false collusion,
 * I dare rightwell the sothe express,
 * They have no better protection,
 * But shrowd them vnder doubleness.

Translations

 * Arabic: قَرَصَ
 * Hijazi Arabic: قرص
 * Aromanian: chishcu
 * Assamese: চিকুটা
 * Azerbaijani: çimdikləmək
 * Belarusian: шчыпа́ць, ушчыпну́ць
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏇᏄᎩᎠ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: knibe, nappe, nive, klemme
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: pinĉi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: beliscar
 * German: ,
 * Haitian Creole: pense
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic: klípa
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: näpissellä
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: قونجورک گرتن, نوقورچ لێدان
 * Latin: vellico
 * Macedonian: штипе
 * Malay:
 * Jawi: چوبيت
 * Rumi: cubit
 * Maltese: qaras
 * Maori: taukini, kini, kikini, pakini, whakakini, whakakikini, nanapi, nonoti
 * Neapolitan: pezzecà
 * Norman: pînchi
 * Occitan: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: уштинути
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: štípať, štipnúť, uštipnúť
 * Slovene: ščipati,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: கிள்ளு
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Tày: bít
 * Ukrainian: щипа́ти, ущипну́ти
 * Vietnamese:, , nhéo
 * Yiddish: קנײַפּן


 * Bulgarian:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hugge, negle, nuppe
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: pispar,
 * Hungarian:, , , , , ,
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: авалткалаш
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: snuppe,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, nyakon csíp, ,
 * Italian:
 * Norman: pînchi
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, latvoa
 * Hungarian:, ,
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 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:, élesen szél ellen szorít, élesen a szélben vitorlázik
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
 * 2) A close compression of anything with the fingers.
 * I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.
 * 1) A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
 * Mix about four cups of white flour with a pinch of salt.
 * 1) An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
 * 2) A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
 * 3) An organic herbal smoke additive.
 * 4)  A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
 * 5)  The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
 * 6)  An arrest.
 * 1)  The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
 * 2)  An arrest.
 * 1)  An arrest.

Translations

 * Arabic: قَرْصَة
 * Hijazi Arabic: قَرْصَة
 * Azerbaijani: atım
 * Belarusian: шчыпо́к
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: knib,, niv
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: liomóg, scealpóg
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:, قونجورکە
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Southern Kurdish: قوِڕینجِگ, قوِنجیڕ
 * Neapolitan: pizzico
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish:, szczypnięcie
 * Portuguese: beliscada,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: štipanje
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Afar: lífiq
 * Assamese: চিকুট
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: drys
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: pinĉaĵo, pinĉpreno, pinĉopreno
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: näppi
 * Irish: gráinne
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: прстофат
 * Norman: pînchie
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: pitada (ex: uma pitada de sal)
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: щи́почка, щи́пка, щипо́к
 * Welsh: pinsiaid


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: pinteessä
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: