pinprick

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English

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Etymology

From pin +‎ prick.

Noun

pinprick (plural pinpricks)

  1. An insignificant puncture made by a pin or similar point.
  2. A mildly annoying wound or damage.
  3. A very tiny dot.
    The stars were pinpricks of light in a clear night sky.

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Verb

pinprick (third-person singular simple present pinpricks, present participle pinpricking, simple past and past participle pinpricked)

  1. (transitive) To produce a jabbing sensation, like a pinprick, in.
    The water pinpricked her face as she stepped into the shower.
  2. (transitive) To puncture with a tiny hole or holes.
    • 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 144:
      By now it was dark, velvety dark with a moon, a darkness pinpricked by the lights from the landing place now drawing rapidly closer.
    • 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 164:
      He had always had to repress the urge to pinprick her enthusiasms.
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