Pinch

Expressions using "pinch": at a pinch ♦ azimuthal pinch ♦ come to the pinch ♦ feel the pinch ♦ fell the pinch of hunger ♦ hard core pinch ♦ inverse pinch ♦ it may prove useful at a pinch ♦ Jack at a pinch ♦ on a pinch ♦ orthogonal pinch ♦ pinch a bit ♦ pinch and scrape ♦ pinch and spare ♦ pinch back ♦ pinch bar ♦ pinch fist ♦ pinch hard ♦ pinch hitter ♦ pinch of snuff ♦ pinch off ♦ pinch on ♦ pinch oneself ♦ pinch out ♦ pinch pennies ♦ pinch penny ♦ pinch some of ♦ theta pinch ♦ To pinch at ♦ tubular pinch ♦ Vulcan nerve pinch ♦ when it comes to the pinch. Additional references.

Beginning with "pinch": pinch-and-swell, pinch-an-inch, pinch-faced, pinch-headed, pinch-hit, pinch-hitting, pinch-induced, pinch-off, pinch-pleated, pinch-points, pinch-waisted.

Ending with "pinch": inch-of-pinch, inch-pinch, Jack-at-a-pinch, penny-pinch.

Albanian

pickoj (bite, nip, pluck), pickim (nip, pluck, sting), një majë, arrestoj (arrest, nab, nip, run in, seize), cimbis (nibble), cimbisje (nibble), hall (disappointment, problem, scrape, trouble), jam i kursyer, kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang), nduk (nibble, nip, pluck), nevojë (call, demand, exigency, maun, necessity, need, requirement, straits, want), arrestim (arrest, custody, detention, recapture, seizure, taking), një çikë (bit, crumb, dab, little, soupcon), vret, qëroj (blanch, clean, clear, cut out, decorticate, dress, finger, Hull, mulct, pare, Peel, pick, pick off, poach, rind, scale, shell, waste, whip, zap), shtrëngesë (compulsion, constraint, trammel, trammels), shtrëngim (clutch, coercion, compulsion, constriction, constringency, contraction, fastening, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, hug, jam, jamming, jaw, pressure, restraint, squeeze, strangulation), shtrëngoj (bind, brace, buckle, clamp, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, coerce, compel, compress, constrict, enforce, fasten, force, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, hug, jam, keep, oblige, press, restrict, screw, shake, squash, squeeze, strain, strangle, tighten, vice, wring), vjedh (cop, Frisk, hook, lift, mooch, nobble, peculate, pilfer, prig, purloin, Rob, salvage, scrounge, snitch, steal, take away, thieve, walk off with), vjedhje (abduction, burglary, larceny, lift, peculation, picking, rapine, robbery, steal, stealing, stealth, theft, thievery, trousering), vrarje (injury), ngushticë (channel, defile, narrow, neck, plight, sound, Strait, want). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نشل (buy up, palm, pick, snaffle, sneak, twitch), ‏لدغ (bite, biting, burr, lisp, nettle, sting, stinging, strike), ‏قرصة (nip, scratch), ‏قرص (bite, jab, nip, nip out, nipping, pill, sting, tweak), ‏قبضة (authority, clasp, clutch, control, fist, fistful, grip, handful, hold, holding), ‏قبض (catch, constrict, constriction, contraction, get hold of, grasp, seizure, taking), ‏غارة (descent, incursion, inroad, raid, sortie), ‏سرقة (larceny, lift, pilfering, plunder, robbery, steal, stealing, stealthiness, stick up, theft, thievery, trash), ‏سرق (convey, crib, crook, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nick, nobble, pick, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sack, sneak, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), ‏ضيق (bottleneck, canyon, choke, close, contract, cramped, hardship, incommodious, malaise, narrow, narrowness, need, oppression, parochial, scrimpy, shrink, slit, straiten, straits, strict, succinctness, tag, tight, tighten, tightness), ‏ضغط (bear in mind, compress, compressing, compression, crowd, depress, duress, force, hustle, jam, lay stress on smth., lean, lobby, lobbying, press, pressure, push, screw, smash, squeeze, strain, stress, telescope, tension). (various references)

Bulgarian 

лом (bar, fracture, lever), изклинвам се, затруднение (ado, cumber, difficulty, drawback, embarrassment, encumbrance, hang up, hard sledding, hardship, hitch, involvement, jackpot, perplexity, predicament, pressure, quandary, rub, scrape, spot, tickler, tight corner, tight squeeze, trouble), задигане (lift), задигам (bag, carry away, filch, finger, grab, lift, mooch, nip, prig, run away with, scarp, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, swipe, walk off with), живея оскъдно, арестуване (apprehension, arrest, attachment, charge, cop, custody, detention, lockup, seizure), арестувам (apprehend, arrest, attach, bring in, bust, impound, nab, nail, nip, pick up, pull, rap, restrain, round up, run in, secure, seize, take in, take up), ограничавам (bound, chasten, circumscribe, constrain, contract, focalize, hem, immure, intern, limit, localise, localize, narrow, peg down, qualify, reduce, repress, restrict, specialize, straiten, tie down, trammel), лост (bar, bolt, clevis, column, crossbar, horizontal bar, lever, pry, tiller), отмъквам (carry away, collar, drag off, pilfer, rip off, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, swipe, whip off), лишение (privation, want), лишавам (abridge, bereave, bereft, denude, drain, drain of, shear, starve), правя големи икономии, притеснявам (discomfort, fidget, incommode, inconvenience, push, put smb. out, rush, screw up, squeeze), притеснено положение, притискам (constrict, embosom, jam, pin, pin down, press, press down, screw, snuggle, squeeze, strain, strangulate, throng, weight down), пипвам (catch, cop, feel, grab, nab, nail, nip, pull, rap, snag, touch), изклиняване, арест (arrest, cage, custody, glass house, lockup, round house, taking), карам да се свие, стискам (clasp, clench, grasp, press, screw, set, squeeze), стиска (tussock, wisp), скъпя се (screw, scrimp, skimp, stint), свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit, knit together, knot, neck, pucker, roll, screw, screw up, set, shorten, snitch, swing, turn, turn down, twist, wad, warp, work), щипя (bite, nip, sting, tingle), щипка (claw), щипване (tweak), нужда (call, destitution, distress, hardship, necessary, necessity, need, privation, requirement, use, want), карам да се съсухри, стягам (accouter, accoutre, bind, brace, compact, constrain, constrict, do up, gripe, hold in, hoop, impact, lace, lace up, lock, pack, preen, screw up, straiten, tense, tighten, trim, truss), карам да измършавее (emaciate), внезапен обиск, оронвам (shell), ощипване (nip, tweak), ощипвам (nip, tweak), отчеквам (break off, nip off, pinch off), открадвам (kidnap, make away with, nip, nobble, pick, pull, purloin, run away with, snatch, steal, walk away with, walk off with), отмъкване, кражба (job, larceny, lift, rip off, robbery, steal, stealing, theft, thievery). (various references)

Chinese 

少量 (fewest, groat, groats, morsel). (various references)

Czech

přištípnout, tlak (head, oppression, press, pressure, strain, stress), tlaèit (hurt, jostle, pack, press, push, throng, thrust, trundle, wheel), tisknout (print, strain), sklíèit (cast down, deject, weigh down), sevření (clasp, clutch, constriction, grip, holdfast, squeeze), nouze (deprivation, destitution, distress, indigence, necessities, need, needs, poverty, privation, scarcity, want), štípnutí (bite, nip, sting, tweak), štípat (bite, chop, cleave, cut, punch, scratch, smart, split). (various references)

Danish

kneb (subterfuge, trick, trickery). (various references)

Dutch

tokkelen (pick, pluck, ring), klemmen (binding, clamping). (various references)

Esperanto

pinĉi, pinĉegi, trompŝteli (pilfer), subŝteli (pilfer). (various references)

Faeroese

klípa. (various references)

Farsi 

موقعیت باریک , مضیقه (Extremity, Stress), نیشگون گرفتن , نیشگون , قاپیدن (Grab, Grasp, Nab, Nail, Raven, Ravish, Seize, Snap, Snatch), تنگنا (Bottleneck, Fix, Hairbreadth, Impasse, Jaw, Strait, Warpath), سربزنگاه (Nick), جانشین (Deputy, Relief, Substitute, Surrogate, Vicar, Vicarious), اندک (Lean, Light, Little, Low, Margin, Modicum, Paucity, Scant, Scantling, Scarce, Scrimp, Scruple, Skimpy, Slight, Whit). (various references)

Finnish

pusertaa (compress, jam, press, squeeze), puserrus (compress, jam, press, squeeze), pula (abashment, crisis, embarrassment, fix, mess, perplexity, predicament, shortage), pihistää, vohkia, nipistää (nip), likistää (jam, squeeze), kähveltää (filch, pilfer), ahdistaa (attack, be tight, beset, harass, heckle, importune, oppress, press). (various references)

French

pincer (pick up, pinch out), pincement (pincement, pinching, pinching off), pincée (pincement, pinching). (various references)

German

zwicken (nip, to nip, to tweak, tweak), kneifen (back out, chicken out, crap out, duck out, get out, hedge, nip, pinching, to nip, tweak). (various references)

Greek 

τσιμπώ (bite, nab, nibble, nip, sting, stung, tweak, twinge). (various references)

Hebrew 

לדחוק (importune, oppress, pack, press, squeeze, thrust, urge), לצבוט (bind together, clamp, grasp, nip), לסחוט (exact, press, squeeze, tap, wring), שמץ (grain, iota, jot, mite, modicum, morsel, odor, odour, particle, shade, shred, soupcon, sprinkling, suspicion, syllable, tincture, trace, whit), קמצוץ (grain, tittle), קורטוב (bit, dash, iota, modicum, shade, smack, spot, taste, touch, trace), צביטה (clasping, nip, nipping, pinching). (various references)

Hungarian

csipet. (various references)

Indonesian

menggetil, mencecah (hit slightly, touch lightly), jemput (pick up), cubit-cubitan, cacak (swipe, upright, vertical). (various references)

Italian

pizzicare (be hot, bite, nip, pluck, sting, tingle, tweak). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

捻り (twist), 摘まみ (knob, snack). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひねり (twist), つまみ (button, knob, snack). (various references)

Korean 

꼬집음 (Pinching). (various references)

Manx

spulgey (nipping, peck, pecking, pick out; pinching, pluck out), spulgaig (nip), spulg (nip, peck), spolgey (chip off, chipping, nip, nip off, peck), spolg (nip, peck), minniag (a tiny person, bite, bite of insect, diminutive person, nip, small person, twinge, very small piece), mingey (bite of bird; nipping, bite; nipping, biting, nip, pinching), mingeraght, grineen (bead, granule, grit), geid (kidnap, larceny, pocket, purloin, rustle, steal, thieve, thievery, thieving). (various references)

Papiamen

kinipí. (various references)

Pig Latin

inchpay.(various references)

Portuguese

beliscar (gripe, nip, twitch). (various references)

Romanian

prizã (plug, socket), pişca (bite, nip, sting, tweak), pensetã (forceps, pair of tweezers, pincers, tweezers), fi zgârcit (screw), ananghie (bay, difficulty, hardship, morass, trouble, want), arest (arrest, committal, custody, detainer, detention, imprisonment, prison), aresta (apprehend, arrest, confine, grab, have up, lag, nab, prison, seize, take into custody, trap), şterpeli (annex, bag, filch, knock off, nibble, nobble, pilfer, scrounge, steal, whisk), chinui (agonize, bait, bore, drudge, fester, grill, harass, Harrow, Harry, lacerate, martyr, martyrize, mortify, overdrive, persecute, plague, prey, prick, rack, slave, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, try, worry, wring), ciordi (filch, hook, pilfer, prig), ciupi (filch, goose, nip, pick, pit, pluck, twang, tweak), ciupiturã (nip, pit, tweak), da pinteni (incite, spur), durere (ache, bale, burden, complaint, dolour, grief, hurt, mourning, pain, Ruth, sorrow, suffering, torture, trouble, woe), îngustare (shrinking), fi prea mic, supãra (anger, annoy, ballyrag, chafe, exasperate, grieve, inconvenience, irk, irritate, miff, molest, nettle, offend, pester, plague, provoke, reck, rile, rumple, spite, tease, trouble, vex), fura (abstract, crib, defalcate, embezzle, filch, hook, kidnap, knock off, lift, make away with, nibble, nim, pick pockets, pilfer, pill, plagiarize, poach, prig, purloin, Raven, reave, snake, steal, thieve), jena (disturb, embarrass, hinder, hurt, scruple, straiten, trouble), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), stoarce (crush, drain, exhaust, express, extort, extort from, fleece, force, milk, press, screw, soak, squeeze, swindle, twist, wring), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), strânge cu cleştele (nip), strânsoare (grasp, grip, pinching, restraint, strictness), fi econom (spare). (various references)

Russian 

щепотка (thimbleful), прищемить (jam, nip), жать (cut, harvest, mow, press, reap, strangle), зажимать (clip, cramp, jam, jig), ограничивать (bound, circumscribe, confine, constrain, delimit, determine, enclose, hedge, inclose, limit, narrow, qualify, restrain, restrict, scanting, scrimp, set a limit, set bounds, specialize, stint, straiten, terminate), вымогать (extort, screw out of, squeeze), выклинивание, кража (heist, larceny, lift, robbery, steal, theft, thievery), щипать (nibble, nip, pluck, tweaking), подгонять (customize, dovetail, goad, hurry, match, pepped, urge, wing), щипок (nip, tweak), стянуть (filch, pilfer, pull off), сдавливать (squeeze), сжимать (clasp, clench, compress, constrict, contract, grip, jam, shrank, shrunk, squeeze, squeezed, strain, strangulate, tighten, vice, vise), сжатие (clutch, compression, constriction, constringency, contraction, grasp, jam, nip, pressing, pressure, shrinkage, squeeze), экономить , скупиться (begrudge, scrimp, skimp), украсть (crook, filch, nobble, snaffle, steal, thieve, walk off with), ущипнуть (tweak), ущемить (infringe, wound), щипать повышение . (various references)

Scottish

deannag (a small pinch, small pinch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prikleštiti, zahvat među prstima, uhapsiti (arrest, bust up, detain, immure, imprison, incarcerate, nab, pick up, pull in, quod, run in), uštip, krađa (larceny, pickings, snitch, stealing, theft, thievery), žuljati, štipnuti (nip, tweak), štipati (bite, tingle), škripac (fix, hole, jam, scrape, strait, straits). (various references)

Spanish

pizca (dash, jot, mite, ounce, particle, pennyworth, scrap, shade, shadow, shred, soupcon, sprinkle, thought, touch, trace, trifle, whit), pellizco (nip), pillarse, pellizcar (nip), pizcar (dash, nip), poner en un apuro, pulgarada, pesca (bag, catch, fishing), apuro (difficulty, extremity, hardship, hole, hurry, jam, need, plight, predicament, privation, push, quandary, trouble), apretar (bind, clasp, clench, clutch, constrain, constrict, cramp, fasten, grasp, grip, hug, oppress, pack down, press, press down, pull, purse, push, push down, quicken, ram, screw, snuggle, squeeze, subtend, tighten, tighten up, turn, turn on), escatimar (be sparing off, curtail, cut down, give grudgingly, grudge, scant, scrimp, skimp, spare, stint), aplastado (crushed, crushing, rolling, stempress), atenazar, coger (accept, arrest, bag, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clutch, cop, develop, fetch, frig, gather, get, get hold of, go down, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hit off, hold, hook, hunch, imbibe, land, lay hold of, lift, nab, nail, nobble, pick, pick up, pluck, seize, take, take on, take out, take up, toss, touch, treat, trip, trip up, yank off), dedada (dab, trimbleful), economizar (be miserly, economize, husband, nickel and dime, retrench, scrape, skimp, spare), estrechamiento (narrowing), herir (bruise, cripple, cut up, hit, hurt, injure, lacerate, offend, Pierce, pique, scorch, scotch, shoot, smite, spite, strike, touch, wound), agarrar (catch, catch hold of, clench, clutch, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, hold, hold tight, lay hold of, lift, nail, pack, seize, snatch up, tackle, take, take on, touch), necesidad (desire, hunger, necessity, need, neediness, poverty, requirement, starvation, straits, want), tacañear, quitar (abstract, blow off, brush away, brush off, clear away, clear out, come off, encroach on, excise, get away, get off, get out, give, iron out, kill, knock off, knock out, lay, leak away, leak out, leave, lend, let away, litter, Parry, pick off, pull off, push off, relieve, remove, take away, take down, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw away, throw over, throw up, tidy away, trim away, trim off, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn off, twist off, wash away, wash off, weaken, weed, withdraw), robar (abstract, burglarize, burgle, draw, pluck, remove, rob, scrounge, steal, thieve, twist, walk away, walk off), robo con (grab, pilfering, snatch), mangar (pocket). (various references)

Swedish

nypa (nip, peg, tweak), knipa (bind, fix, goldeneye, hobble, hole, jam, scrape, Strait). (various references)

Turkish

kısmak (abridge, attenuate, ax, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut back, cut down on, depress, diminish, draw in, economize, narrow, pare, pare down, put down, qualify, reduce, retrench, scrimp, skimp, soften, stint, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), çimdik (nip, tweak), çimdiklemek (nip, pinch off, tweak), acı vermek (afflict, be wormwood to, distress, excruciate, Harrow), ayağını sıkmak, cimrilik etmek (be stingy of smth., look twice at every penny, pinch and scrape, scrimp, skimp), ele geçirmek (capture, conquer, corner, embrace, get, get hold of, hunt down, invade, lay hold of, possess oneself of, seize, take, take possession of, win), gerek (exigence, exigency, necessity, need, requirement, requisition), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip), ihtiyaç (call, demand, deprivation, desideratum, exigence, exigency, necessity, need, privation, requirement, want), yakalanma (attack), kıstırmak (bring to bay, claw hold of, corner, jam, jam in, nip, shut, shut in, tuck), kıvrandırmak (agonize, convulse, make suffer), sıkıştırmak (astringe, be urgent with smb., bear against, besiege, bombard, bottle up, clamp, clamp down, clinch, come down on, compact, compress, constrict, crowd, crush, drive smb. to the wall, dun, force, grind, grip, heckle, hurry, hustle, impact, impress, incarcerate, jam, jam in, lean on, lean upon, oppress, pin, pin down, ply, ply with, press, press for, press smb. close, push, push smb. to the wall, rush, shut in, slip into, squeeze, straiten, stress, tighten, tuck, wedge, weigh), sıkmak (ail, bore, bother, Chevy, chivvy, chivy, clench, constipate, constrict, crush, cumber, depress, distress, extrude, give the willies, grip, harass, hatchel, hold tight, incommode, irk, jam, load, make fast, mope, oppress, press, pressurize, pull on, ream, ream out, squeeze, straiten, strangulate, tighten), tutam (a handful, cluster, cut, nest, smack, soupcon, sprinkle, sprinkling, tuft, wisp), tutuklama (apprehension, arrest, arrestment, caption, cop, detention, duress), yakalamak (account, bag, catch, catch hold of, catch up on, claw hold of, clutch, collar, cop, embrace, entrap, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nobble, overtake, pull up to, seize, seize on, snap up, snatch, tackle, take, take up, trap), gereklilik (exigence, exigency, materiality, must, necessity, requirement). (various references)

Turkmen 

зьmmьklemek (tweak), зьmmьk, зirtmek (tweak). (various references)

Ukrainian

стискати (astringe, clasp, constrict, contract, cramp, jam, nip, straiten, strangulate, throttle, tighten), стиснення (grip, nip, pressing, shrinkage, squeeze, wring), щипок (nip), щипати (nip), мучити (agonize, bedevil, bully, chivvy, crucify, devour, drag, excruciate, martyrize, pain, plague, torment, torture, tribulate, trouble, victimize, whip), пучка (dust, screw). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự tóm cổ, sự giằn vặt (torment), sự dày vò lúc gay go, cái vấu, cái véo (nip, tweak), cái kẹp (clamp, holdfast, nip). (various references)

Welsh

pinsio, pinsiad. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pinch": pinchbeck, pinchbecks, pinchbug, pinchbugs, pincheck, pinchecks, pinched, pincher, pinchers, pinches, pinching, pinchpenny. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pinch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Binch, dinch, kinch, ninch, Pancha, pancho, pech, Pencho, Pencz, piank, picchi, pich, Pichi, Piecha, pinc, pince, Pincho, Pinchot, pinck, pinich, pinih, Pirch, pisch, poink, ponc, ponch, spanch, spinch, tinch, zinch. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chin, chip, inch.

-2 letters: chi, hic, hin, hip, ich, nip, phi, pic, pin.

-3 letters: hi, in, pi.

+1 letter: chopin, hypnic, painch, phonic.

+2 letters: aphonic, chopine, chopins, ciphony, nephric, peching, penuchi, phocine, phonics, phrenic, pinched, pincher, pinches, sphenic, spinach.

+3 letters: aphonics, camphine, capuchin, cephalin, champing, champion, chaplain, chapping, cheeping, chipmunk, chipping, chirping, chomping, chopines, chopping, chumping, encipher, euphenic, euphonic, handicap, handpick, haptenic, hypnotic, linchpin, lynchpin, nightcap, pachinko, painches, parching, patching, peaching, penuchis, perching, phenetic, phenolic, phenylic, phonemic, phonetic, photonic, phytonic, pinchbug, pincheck, pinchers, pinching, pinochle, pinscher, pitching, pitchman, pitchmen, poaching, pooching, pouching, prochain, prochein, psyching, punchier, punchily, punching, pythonic, siphonic, spinachy, typhonic.