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pinch
English
Etymology
From Middle English pinchen, from Old French *pinchier, pincer (“to pinch”), from Vulgar Latin *pinci?re (“to puncture, pinch”), from possible merger of *puncti?re (“a puncture, sting”), from Latin puncti? (“a puncture, prick”) and *picc?re (“to strike, sting”), from Frankish *pikk?n, from Proto-Germanic *pikk?n? (“to pick, peck, prick”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?nt?/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Verb
pinch (third-person singular simple present pinches, present participle pinching, simple past and past participle pinched)
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- The children were scolded for pinching each other.
- This shoe pinches my foot.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)
- 1788, Benjamin Franklin (attributed), Paper
- the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare
- To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
- (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- to be pinched for money
- c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War
- want of room […] which pincheth the whole nation
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:
- The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
- 1809, Alexander Chalmers ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to Geoffrey Chaucer, "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.
- 1809, Alexander Chalmers ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to Geoffrey Chaucer, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":
Derived terms
- pinch off
- pinch out
- pinch a loaf
Translations
Noun
pinch (plural pinches)
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 171:
- It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch, and it sure was a pinch.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 171:
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- 2001, Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time:
- It looked like an hourglass, but all those little glittering shapes tumbling through the pinch were seconds.
- 2001, Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time:
- (slang) An arrest.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (pinchi)
Translations
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massage
English
Etymology
From French massage (noun), from masser (“to massage”) (borrowed around the end of the 18th century from Arabic ?????? (massa, “feel, touch”)) + -age. Cognate to German massieren.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /m??s??/, /m??s?d??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?mæs???/
Noun
massage (countable and uncountable, plural massages)
- The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.
- 2014, Gary Vitacco-Robles, Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe Volume 2 1956-1962 AND Beyond
- During the long lapses in work common with on-location productions, Marilyn would silently meditate as Roberts provided a shoulder massage.
- 2014, Gary Vitacco-Robles, Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe Volume 2 1956-1962 AND Beyond
Hyponyms
- Thai massage
- See also Thesaurus:therapy
Derived terms
- automassage
- lingam massage
- massage table
- massager
- massotherapy
- yoni massage
Related terms
- massage parlour, massage parlor
- massage therapist
- masseur, masseuse
Translations
Verb
massage (third-person singular simple present massages, present participle massaging, simple past and past participle massaged)
- (transitive) To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody).
- 2010, January 11, Julian Kaye, "Massage Therapy" [1]
- So after massaging a nude woman while being nude or nearly nude myself, sex is a natural way to end things.
- 2010, January 11, Julian Kaye, "Massage Therapy" [1]
- (transitive) To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 118:
- News relating to public disturbances was systematically massaged [...].
- 2008, Patrick Wintour & Steven Morris, The Guardian, May 22 2008, p. 3:
- The Conservatives have massaged expectations down by saying they would be delighted with a majority of 1,000 [...]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 118:
- (transitive) To falsify (data or accounts).
Derived terms
- massage someone's ego
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
From French massage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??sa???/
- Hyphenation: mas?sa?ge
Noun
massage f (plural massages, diminutive massagetje n)
- physical massage
Related terms
- masseur m
French
Etymology
masser +? -age
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.sa?/
Noun
massage m (plural massages)
- physical massage
Derived terms
Related terms
- masser
- masseur m, masseuse f
Descendants
Further reading
- “massage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Etymology
From French massage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma?s???/
Noun
massage c
- massage
Declension
Related terms
- massera
- massör, massös
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