pinprickn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpɪnprɪk/, U.S.

/ˈpɪnˌprɪk/

Forms: see pin n.¹ and prick n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pin n.¹, prick n.

Etymology: < pin n.¹ + prick n. Compare earlier pinpricking n. In sense A. 2 after French coup d'épingle (1827 or earlier).With policy of pinpricks n. at sense A. 2 compare French politique de coups d'épingle : on 8 Nov. 1898 the French journal Le Matin deprecated a ‘politique des niches à l'Angleterre’, and ‘de continuelles piqûres d'épingle’; on 16 Nov. the Times, referring to this article, used the words ‘a policy of “pinpricks”’ (see quot. 1898 at sense A. 2); Le Temps of 19 Nov. (publ. evening of 18 Nov.) had an article denying on the part of France the existence of a ‘politique de coups d'épingle’, the Timesof 19 Nov. quoted this as a ‘policy of pin-pricks’ (this time without the inverted commas).

A. n.

a. A prick from or as from a pin; a small puncture such as is made by the point of a pin. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > a hole bored, pierced, or perforated > made with a sharp-pointed instrument > a prick

prickOE

pointc1392

puncture?a1425

pinprick1755

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxi. 54 I will not sweare these are my hands, lets see, I feele this pin pricke, would I were assur'd of my condition. ]

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. xviii. 447 I cure other people's maladies at the expence of pinches, twitches, pin-pricks, lashes, and drops of blood.

1855 R. Browning Lovers' Quarrel xvi, in Men & Women I. 14 What of a hasty word? Is the fleshly heart not stirred By a worm's pin-prick Where its roots are quick?

1862 John & I II. 70 I would never move..to cause you the pain of a pin prick.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 520 When ankle-clonus has disappeared..a pin-prick of the plantar skin will restore it.

1949 E. Coxhead Wind in West vii. 195 At the far end of the stifling tunnel, in which he was condemned to grope for ever, he seemed to see a pin-prick of light.

1978 Times 22 July 9/2 Beware of sea urchins and the pinpricks of coral.

1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 23 Nov. (Weekend) 2/6 Its sun is a mere pinprick in the sky.

b. Neurology. As a mass noun: pricking of the skin as a means of neurological testing for sensation of pain.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [noun] > specific test

pneobiomantia1846

blood test1851

drug test1863

Romberg test1872

Rinne1881

Romberg's sign1884

tuberculin test1892

guaiac test1894

agglutination1896

percolation test1899

Pirquet test1908

skin test1908

Wassermann1909

Romberg1915

Pandy('s) test1916

glucose tolerance test1917

Kolmer1921

patch test1922

skin testing1923

provocation1924

Kolmer–Wassermann1925

Queckenstedt1928

Kline1929

Prausnitz–Küstner1929

cross-match1930

Mantoux test1931

paraffin test1935

Paul–Bunnell test1935

stress test1937

Burpee test1939

lepromin test1939

patch testing1941

pinprick1941

breath test1945

provocation test1948

protamine titration1949

Coombs test1950

smear test1950

Schilling test1955

tanned-(red-)cell1956

amniocentesis1958

Pap smear1963

Pap test1963

drugs test1967

Schultz–Charlton1974

amnio1984

cross-matching-

1941 Child Devel. 12 31 (title) Neural maturation as exemplified in the changing reactions of the infant to pin prick.

1967 Brain 90 191 Pin-prick was not felt on the tongue, although he could distinguish hot from cold.

2000 Pain 87 275 Sensory threshold to pinprick and thermal stimuli was significantly higher on the operated side in both groups.

2. figurative. A petty annoyance, a minor irritation. policy of pinpricks n. now chiefly historical a series of petty hostile acts pursued as a national or party policy (originally with reference to the policy pursued by France in her conflict with British Imperial interests in the 1890s).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial > types of

venialc1380

nutshalea1393

nutshella1400

flea-biting1553

flea-bite1577

nothing1577

epitomea1593

quilicoma1644

ephemera1751

pinprick1853

bibelot1873

piffle1884

peanut1910

popcorn1964

trivia1968

factoid1982

the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] > action of irritating > cause of irritation > one who or that which irritates > in minor way

pinprick1853

niggle1865

ankle-biter1872

pinprod1893

1853 G. Potts tr. L. Bungener Preacher & King xxviii. 326 A combat of pin-pricks [Fr. Une lutte à coups d'épingle] would have appeared to him unworthy of the pulpit.

1885 Public Opinion 9 Jan. 29/2 Petty pin-pricks on the coast of Africa had rather irritated than roused public opinion.

1898 Times 16 Nov. 9/3 Such a policy of ‘pinpricks’ is beginning to be recognized by sensible Frenchmen as a grievous error.

1901 Daily Tel. 22 Mar. 9/5 Russian provocation is at present but a policy of pin-pricks.

1965 G. Grant Lament for Nation ii. 11 The cause of that defeat was a protest by Canadians not against the principles but against the pin-pricks of the Howe régime.

1998 Foreign Affairs (Nexis) July–Aug. 161 The failure of this policy of pinpricks to produce effective results goaded the Soviets in 1948 to blockade the city [sc. Berlin].

B. adj. (attributive).

1. Causing petty annoyance or minor irritation.

ΚΠ

1898 Globe 6 Dec. 1/2 Disposed to bring the pin-prick policy to bear upon British interests in the Far East.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 12 July 12/1 The men who incited her to the act,..who had taunted the women with using only pin-prick methods, ought to be standing with her in the dock.

1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xvi. 82 The tribesmen..hindered and distracted the Turks by their pin-prick raids.

1977 Time 4 Apr. 23/2 After launching a few pinprick air raids, Mobutu's Army Chief of Staff..claimed that the intruders were in retreat.

1994 New Yorker 19 Sept. 49/2 NATO..meekly countered acts of gross Serbian aggression with such genteel responses as ‘pinprick’ air attacks, designed to inflict only symbolic damage.

2. Of the nature of a pinprick; tiny, barely perceptible.

ΚΠ

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. iv. 73 There is no mouth in sponges; and, as we have mentioned, the microscopic food-particles are drawn in through pinprick openings in the outer layer.

1967 M. Ayrton Maze Maker xxiii. 115 There were pinprick stars, letting in the light.

1993 San Francisco Examiner 1 Aug. (Image section) 10/1 Far, far below I can see the pinprick headlights of a steady line of cars creeping into Yosemite Valley into Highway 140.

Compounds

pinprick picture n. a coloured print perforated with pinholes so as to give an illuminated effect when held to the light.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > [noun] > a print > types of print generally

sporting print1811

colour print1855

autotypy1872

metallograph1890

surimono1899

Medici print1906

restrike1912

cliché-verre1913

pinpricked picture1936

pinprick picture1943

kiss impression1946

original print1961

1943 Times 13 Jan. 1/5 (advt.) An old Illustrated London News Panorama Print of London, £4 4s., showing old Hungerford Bridge and market: also an old Pinprick Picture 50s.

1968 Canad. Antiques Collector Oct. 22/1 Pinprick pictures of ancient oriental origin are probably a branch of decoupage.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

pinprickv.

Brit.

/ˈpɪnprɪk/, U.S.

/ˈpɪnˌprɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pinprick n.

Etymology: < pinprick n. Compare earlier pinpricked adj., pinpricking n.

1. transitive. To prick or mark with or as with a pin; to goad. Also occasionally intransitive. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)] > in minor way

pinprick1871

niggle1960

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed > prick

prickOE

pointa1425

joba1500

birlc1540

punct1548

nib1558

pounce1570

punge1570

stab1570

reprick1611

jaga1700

barb1803

jab1825

rowel1891

pinprick1909

1871 W. Elder Questions of Day 161 Every second of time is pin-pricked into infinitesimals.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 6 Feb. 2/3 A Committee to pin-prick them on the subject.

1909 Daily Chron. 15 July 4/4 Every book for the blind is carefully pin-pricked by voluntary workers who can see.

1912 J. Bailey Let. 13 Aug. (1935) 132 You shall certainly pin-prick if you will when you come to London, if you don't find anything more amusing to do—and I will listen respectfully and gratefully.

1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid xi. 245 Drances, hostile as ever to Turnus, whose high renown Pin-pricked him with sour envy to intrigue against him.

1995 Melody Maker 25 Mar. 20/3 A flood of divinely molten guitars bank up, pinpricked by migraine-inducing bursts of feedback.

2. transitive. Military. To locate (a target) precisely; = pinpoint v. 1b. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > find or mark target

pinpoint1940

pinprick1945

1945 R. A. Knox God & Atom v. 71 Other men's lives are at stake; those..of British or American airmen who might be shot down in trying to pin-prick the targets of Hiroshima one by one, instead of devoting it to a general holocaust.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pinprick
释义	pinprickn.adj. Brit. /ˈpɪnprɪk/, U.S. /ˈpɪnˌprɪk/ Forms: see pin n.¹ and prick n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pin n.¹, prick n. Etymology: < pin n.¹ + prick n. Compare earlier pinpricking n. In sense A. 2 after French coup d'épingle (1827 or earlier).With policy of pinpricks n. at sense A. 2 compare French politique de coups d'épingle : on 8 Nov. 1898 the French journal Le Matin deprecated a ‘politique des niches à l'Angleterre’, and ‘de continuelles piqûres d'épingle’; on 16 Nov. the Times, referring to this article, used the words ‘a policy of “pinpricks”’ (see quot. 1898 at sense A. 2); Le Temps of 19 Nov. (publ. evening of 18 Nov.) had an article denying on the part of France the existence of a ‘politique de coups d'épingle’, the Timesof 19 Nov. quoted this as a ‘policy of pin-pricks’ (this time without the inverted commas). A. n. 1. a. A prick from or as from a pin; a small puncture such as is made by the point of a pin. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > a hole bored, pierced, or perforated > made with a sharp-pointed instrument > a prick prickOE pointc1392 puncture?a1425 pinprick1755 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxi. 54 I will not sweare these are my hands, lets see, I feele this pin pricke, would I were assur'd of my condition. View more context for this quotation] 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. xviii. 447 I cure other people's maladies at the expence of pinches, twitches, pin-pricks, lashes, and drops of blood. 1855 R. Browning Lovers' Quarrel xvi, in Men & Women I. 14 What of a hasty word? Is the fleshly heart not stirred By a worm's pin-prick Where its roots are quick? 1862 John & I II. 70 I would never move..to cause you the pain of a pin prick. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 520 When ankle-clonus has disappeared..a pin-prick of the plantar skin will restore it. 1949 E. Coxhead Wind in West vii. 195 At the far end of the stifling tunnel, in which he was condemned to grope for ever, he seemed to see a pin-prick of light. 1978 Times 22 July 9/2 Beware of sea urchins and the pinpricks of coral. 1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 23 Nov. (Weekend) 2/6 Its sun is a mere pinprick in the sky. b. Neurology. As a mass noun: pricking of the skin as a means of neurological testing for sensation of pain. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [noun] > specific test pneobiomantia1846 blood test1851 drug test1863 Romberg test1872 Rinne1881 Romberg's sign1884 tuberculin test1892 guaiac test1894 agglutination1896 percolation test1899 Pirquet test1908 skin test1908 Wassermann1909 Romberg1915 Pandy('s) test1916 glucose tolerance test1917 Kolmer1921 patch test1922 skin testing1923 provocation1924 Kolmer–Wassermann1925 Queckenstedt1928 Kline1929 Prausnitz–Küstner1929 cross-match1930 Mantoux test1931 paraffin test1935 Paul–Bunnell test1935 stress test1937 Burpee test1939 lepromin test1939 patch testing1941 pinprick1941 breath test1945 provocation test1948 protamine titration1949 Coombs test1950 smear test1950 Schilling test1955 tanned-(red-)cell1956 amniocentesis1958 Pap smear1963 Pap test1963 drugs test1967 Schultz–Charlton1974 amnio1984 cross-matching- 1941 Child Devel. 12 31 (title) Neural maturation as exemplified in the changing reactions of the infant to pin prick. 1967 Brain 90 191 Pin-prick was not felt on the tongue, although he could distinguish hot from cold. 2000 Pain 87 275 Sensory threshold to pinprick and thermal stimuli was significantly higher on the operated side in both groups. 2. figurative. A petty annoyance, a minor irritation. policy of pinpricks n. now chiefly historical a series of petty hostile acts pursued as a national or party policy (originally with reference to the policy pursued by France in her conflict with British Imperial interests in the 1890s). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial > types of venialc1380 nutshalea1393 nutshella1400 flea-biting1553 flea-bite1577 nothing1577 epitomea1593 quilicoma1644 ephemera1751 pinprick1853 bibelot1873 piffle1884 peanut1910 popcorn1964 trivia1968 factoid1982 the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] > action of irritating > cause of irritation > one who or that which irritates > in minor way pinprick1853 niggle1865 ankle-biter1872 pinprod1893 1853 G. Potts tr. L. Bungener Preacher & King xxviii. 326 A combat of pin-pricks [Fr. Une lutte à coups d'épingle] would have appeared to him unworthy of the pulpit. 1885 Public Opinion 9 Jan. 29/2 Petty pin-pricks on the coast of Africa had rather irritated than roused public opinion. 1898 Times 16 Nov. 9/3 Such a policy of ‘pinpricks’ is beginning to be recognized by sensible Frenchmen as a grievous error. 1901 Daily Tel. 22 Mar. 9/5 Russian provocation is at present but a policy of pin-pricks. 1965 G. Grant Lament for Nation ii. 11 The cause of that defeat was a protest by Canadians not against the principles but against the pin-pricks of the Howe régime. 1998 Foreign Affairs (Nexis) July–Aug. 161 The failure of this policy of pinpricks to produce effective results goaded the Soviets in 1948 to blockade the city [sc. Berlin]. B. adj. (attributive). 1. Causing petty annoyance or minor irritation. ΚΠ 1898 Globe 6 Dec. 1/2 Disposed to bring the pin-prick policy to bear upon British interests in the Far East. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 12 July 12/1 The men who incited her to the act,..who had taunted the women with using only pin-prick methods, ought to be standing with her in the dock. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xvi. 82 The tribesmen..hindered and distracted the Turks by their pin-prick raids. 1977 Time 4 Apr. 23/2 After launching a few pinprick air raids, Mobutu's Army Chief of Staff..claimed that the intruders were in retreat. 1994 New Yorker 19 Sept. 49/2 NATO..meekly countered acts of gross Serbian aggression with such genteel responses as ‘pinprick’ air attacks, designed to inflict only symbolic damage. 2. Of the nature of a pinprick; tiny, barely perceptible. ΚΠ a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. iv. 73 There is no mouth in sponges; and, as we have mentioned, the microscopic food-particles are drawn in through pinprick openings in the outer layer. 1967 M. Ayrton Maze Maker xxiii. 115 There were pinprick stars, letting in the light. 1993 San Francisco Examiner 1 Aug. (Image section) 10/1 Far, far below I can see the pinprick headlights of a steady line of cars creeping into Yosemite Valley into Highway 140. Compounds pinprick picture n. a coloured print perforated with pinholes so as to give an illuminated effect when held to the light. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > [noun] > a print > types of print generally sporting print1811 colour print1855 autotypy1872 metallograph1890 surimono1899 Medici print1906 restrike1912 cliché-verre1913 pinpricked picture1936 pinprick picture1943 kiss impression1946 original print1961 1943 Times 13 Jan. 1/5 (advt.) An old Illustrated London News Panorama Print of London, £4 4s., showing old Hungerford Bridge and market: also an old Pinprick Picture 50s. 1968 Canad. Antiques Collector Oct. 22/1 Pinprick pictures of ancient oriental origin are probably a branch of decoupage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). pinprickv. Brit. /ˈpɪnprɪk/, U.S. /ˈpɪnˌprɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pinprick n. Etymology: < pinprick n. Compare earlier pinpricked adj., pinpricking n. 1. transitive. To prick or mark with or as with a pin; to goad. Also occasionally intransitive. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)] > in minor way pinprick1871 niggle1960 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed > prick prickOE pointa1425 joba1500 birlc1540 punct1548 nib1558 pounce1570 punge1570 stab1570 reprick1611 jaga1700 barb1803 jab1825 rowel1891 pinprick1909 1871 W. Elder Questions of Day 161 Every second of time is pin-pricked into infinitesimals. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 6 Feb. 2/3 A Committee to pin-prick them on the subject. 1909 Daily Chron. 15 July 4/4 Every book for the blind is carefully pin-pricked by voluntary workers who can see. 1912 J. Bailey Let. 13 Aug. (1935) 132 You shall certainly pin-prick if you will when you come to London, if you don't find anything more amusing to do—and I will listen respectfully and gratefully. 1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid xi. 245 Drances, hostile as ever to Turnus, whose high renown Pin-pricked him with sour envy to intrigue against him. 1995 Melody Maker 25 Mar. 20/3 A flood of divinely molten guitars bank up, pinpricked by migraine-inducing bursts of feedback. 2. transitive. Military. To locate (a target) precisely; = pinpoint v. 1b. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > find or mark target pinpoint1940 pinprick1945 1945 R. A. Knox God & Atom v. 71 Other men's lives are at stake; those..of British or American airmen who might be shot down in trying to pin-prick the targets of Hiroshima one by one, instead of devoting it to a general holocaust. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1755v.1871
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