pinching
/pˈɪntʃɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of pinching off new growth.
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush."
- "Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10."
- "As "Kings of the Covers," they re-recorded happening disks by Elvis ("Heartbreak Hotel") […] and, for their most publicly-known pinching, THE JAYHAWKS ("Stranded In The Jungle")."