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PINCH
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English and French
English and French : from Old French pinson ‘finch’, perhaps a nickname applied to a bright and cheerful person.English and French : metonymic occupational name for someone who made pincers or forceps or who used them in their work, from Old French pinson ‘pincers’ (a derivative of pincier ‘to pinch’).
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Pinching
Male
Hebrew
(×¤Ö¼Ö´× Ö°×—Ö¸×¡) Variant spelling of Hebrew Piynechac, a form of Egyptian Panhsj ("the Nubian"), but translated from Hebrew pinechac, PINCHAS means "mouth of brass."Â
Boy/Male
Australian, Hebrew
Oracle; Mouth of Brass
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English
English : nickname, possibly for a small person, from Middle English pink, penk ‘minnow’ (Old English pinc).English (southeastern) : variant of Pinch.Variant spelling of German Pinck, an indirect occupational name for a blacksmith, an onomatopoeic word imitating the sound of hammering which was perceived as pink(e)pank.German (of Slavic origin) : from a diminutive of Sorbian pien ‘log’, ‘tree stump’, hence probably a nickname for a solid or stubby person.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Pinch (of Snuff)
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English
English : occupational or topographic name, from a derivative of Bell 1.German : habitational name from any of several places so named in Westphalia.German : nickname from Middle High German bellen ‘to pinch’.German : from the Germanic personal name Baldher (see Belter).Hungarian (Bellér) : variant of Böllér (see Boller).
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, apparently so called from Old English pinc(a) ‘(chaf)finch’ + bæc ‘back’, ‘ridge’.
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English (mainly Devon)
English (mainly Devon) : nickname for a chirpy person, from Middle English pinch, pink ‘(chaf)finch’. Compare Finch.English (mainly Devon) : possibly a metonymic occupational name from Middle English pinche ‘pleated fabric’, from Middle English pinche(n) ‘to pinch (pastry)’, ‘to pleat (fabric)’, ‘to crimp (hair, etc.)’, also ‘to cavil’, ‘to be niggardly’.
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
The Comedy of Errors' A schoolmaster.
Boy/Male
Australian, Hebrew
Oracle; Mouth of Brass; Nubian; Mouth of a Serpent
Boy/Male
Indian, Malayalam
Small
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Girl/Female
Indian
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English
Elfin; Good Elf
Boy/Male
Muslim
Friend of Allah
Boy/Male
Hindu
One of the kauravas
Boy/Male
German
Graceful
Boy/Male
Tamil
Blessing
Girl/Female
Hindu
Female
Swedish
Swedish form of Roman Latin Marina, MARNA means "of the sea."
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Indian
Born; New Born
Female
Esperanto
Esperanto name DEZIRINDA means "desirable."
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a.
Pinched with hunger; starved.
v. i.
To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
a.
Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.
adv.
In a pinching way.
n.
A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress.
v. t.
Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
v. t.
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pinch
n.
A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
n.
That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch.
n.
As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
a.
Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
v. i.
To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
n. pl.
Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.
n.
A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.
v. t.
To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.
v. i.
To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
n.
One who, or that which, pinches.
imp. & p. p.
of Pinch
n.
A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.