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English
Etymology
Created from to pinch, as if to- (“intensively, severely”) + pinch.
Verb
topinch (third-person singular simple present topinches, present participle topinching, simple past and past participle topinched)
- (obsolete, transitive) To pinch severely.
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Then let them all encircle him about
And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight.
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