pinchern.

Brit.

/ˈpɪn(t)ʃə/, U.S.

/ˈpɪn(t)ʃər/

Forms: Middle English pynchar, Middle English pyncher, Middle English pynchere, 1500s– pincher, 1800s pinashear (Scottish (north-eastern)), 1800s– pinsher (English regional (Yorkshire)).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pinch v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < pinch v. + -er suffix¹.In form pinashear apparently influenced by shear n.¹

1. Now frequently as the second element in compounds (see bottom pincher n. at bottom n. and adj. Compounds 3, penny-pincher n.).

a. A person who or thing which pinches; †a torturer (obsolete).In quot. 1368 apparently referring to a kind of woman's headdress.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > torturer

pinerOE

wiþerlaȝec1175

tormentorc1290

pincher1368

tortor1570

torturer1597

torture-monger1615

excruciator1864

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > [noun] > one who presses, squeezes, etc.

pincher1368

niper1440

crusher1598

squeezer1611

thronger1648

1368 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1929) II. 91 (MED) [A] forcer [with 2] keverchefs [and other] pynchers..[for a woman's head].

a1450 R. Spaldyng Katereyn in Anglia (1907) 30 546 (MED) Þo pynchars vs haf pynd ay, Þou kille hem, Kateryn kynd ay, And profor vs þi pesse!

1658 J. Spencer Καινα και Παλαια 602 Such are all biting Usurers, that gorge themselves with the spoyl of their poorer brethren.., the bibbers of their bloud, the pinchers of their hearts.

1749 S. Fielding Governess 7 On hearing her friend..scream out, that she was hurt by a sly Pinch from one of the Girls, she flew on this sly Pincher, as she called her, like an enraged Lion.

1783 W. Bailey Western & Midland Directory 157 Bell, Joseph, Glass Pincher, Cherry street.

1841 Times 4 Dec. 2/6 James Goldsmith, a pincher off of the gutta percha tubing, dead.

1884 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 254/2 The respective muscle and pluck of the pincher and the pinched.

1917 E. W. Blashfield Portraits & Backgrounds iii. 344 War itself..is always regarded as a pincher of wallets rather than as a sunderer of companions.

1987 E. Simpson Orphans (1988) i. ii. 26 Whisperers, pinchers, gigglers, players-with-string..stood with their faces to the wall.

b. A detractor; a miser, haggler. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person

nithinga1225

chinch?a1300

nigc1300

chincher1333

shut-purse1340

niggardc1384

haynec1386

nigona1400

pinchera1425

pinchpenny?c1425

pynepenya1450

pelt1511

chincherda1529

churl1535

pinchbeck1538

carl?1542

penny-father1549

nipfarthing1566

nipper?1573

holdfast1576

pinchpence1577

pinch fistc1580

pinchfart1592

shit-sticks1598

clunchfist1606

puckfist1606

sharp-nose1611

spare-good1611

crib1622

hog grubber?1626

dry-fist1633

clusterfist1652

niggardling1654

frummer1659

scrat1699

sting-hum1699

nipcheese1785

pincha1825

screw1825

wire-drawer1828

close-fist1861

penny-pincher1875

nip-skin1876

parer1887

pinch-plum1892

cheapskate1899

meanie1902

tightwad1906

stinge1914

penny-peeler1925

mean1938

stiff1967

a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 130 (MED) Fleschly iangelers, glosers, & blamers, roukers & rouners & alle maner of pynchers, kept I neuer þat þei sawe þis book, for myn entent was neuer to write soche þing to hem.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 347 Muglard, or nyggarde (or pynchar, infra), tenax, avarus, cupidi[n]arius.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Regaton A pedler, a broaker, a pincher in buying, a hucster.

1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 51 Wee commonly take him as a carper, and a pincher at all thinges that are done with any opinion of well dooing.

1706 House-keeper's Guide ii. 52 She must know how to keep within her compass, and yet to avoid the Reproach of a Pincher.

1887 G. Gissing Thyrza III. iii. 62 Cold-blooded pinchers and parers.

1913 J. London Valley of Moon i. ii. 14 Most of them are pinchers—that's why they don't come early, so as to get out of taking the girls to dinner.

c. Originally slang. A person who steals something; a thief.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun]

thief688

bribera1387

stealer1508

taker?a1513

goodfellow1566

snatcher1575

lift1591

liftera1592

larcin1596

Tartar1602

lime-twig1606

outparter1607

Tartarian1608

flick1610

puggard1611

gilt1620

nim1630

highwayman1652

cloyer1659

out-trader1660

Robin Goodfellow1680

birdlime1705

gyp1728

filch1775

kiddy1780

snaveller1781

larcenist1803

pincher1814

geach1821

wharf-rat1823

toucher1837

larcener1839

snammer1839

drummer1856

gun1857

forker1867

gunsmith1869

nabber1880

thiever1899

tea-leaf1903

gun moll1908

nicker1909

knocker-off1926

possum1945

scuffler1961

rip-off1969

1814 W. H. Ireland Jack Junk ii. 39 Pinch produces soon the clothes; And taking payment—pincher true—Nabs just six shillings more than's due.

1877 Vagabond Ann. 136 You have to be a bit of a magsman, a pincher, a picker-up, a flatcatcher, a bester.

1910 Iowa City Daily Press 20 Apr. 7/4 The pinchers and grabbers..get on crowded elevators where women are. One of the..gentlemen..got my fine alum Kohinoor scarfpin.

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang Pincher, a thief, esp. a shoplifter.

2000 Aberdeen Evening Express (Nexis) 5 Oct. 20 The shop security network is collaborating to shut out the persistent pinchers.

2. spec.

a. An instrument for pinching or grasping something; (in plural frequently) = a pair of pincers at pincer n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers

tongsc725

tongsc890

pinsons1356

turkis1390

pincersa1400

twitches?a1425

pinching iron1519

pincette?1533

spinsers1539

pincher1573

twitcher1573

tenailles1597

quitch1600

tenalia1603

forceps1634

vellicle1676

snapdragon1833

1573 G. Gascoigne tr. Ariosto Supposes ii. iv, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 23 He maye as sone get one of his teeth from his iawes with a paire of pinchers, as a pennie out of his purse with suche a conceite.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Catollo, a tormenting instrument called a griper or pincher.

1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xi. 37) iii. 213 The..Persecutors..plucked off..his flesh with red hot pinchers.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 187/2 Clamps are Pinchers with which Foxes and Badgers are taken out of the Earth.

1709 Brit. Apollo: Supernumerary Paper May [A tooth] which I can't pull out with a Pincher.

1763 J. Woodforde Diary 13 June in W. N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley Woodforde at Oxf. (1969) 134 For a P^r. of second-hand Pinchers o. o. 6.

a1832 Secret Songs Silence (Buchan) in M. Shoolbraid High-kilted Muse (2010) 42 Wi' hammer, and wi' pina shears And rivets all o' metal.

1868 T. H. Key Philol. Ess. 191 Thus forcipes, as ‘a pair of pinchers’ for the extraction of teeth, is used by Lucilius.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 682/1 Pincher,..a nipping tool fitting the inside and outside of a bottle, in order to shape the mouth.

1900 Shetland News 3 Feb. Da faider hed ta poo da nail wi' his pinchers.

1971 J. S. Gunn Opal Terminol. 34 Pincher, used to clip off stone to see if good opal is underneath.

1985 Catal. Sale Horse-drawn Vehicles 6 Mar. 13 Farrier's pinchers.

b. Chiefly Zoology. In arthropods: any of various paired appendages that pinch or nip, as the chela of a crab or scorpion, the mandibles of an insect, and the forceps of an earwig. Usually in plural. Cf. pincer n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of > parts of > pincer-like claws

shears1682

nipper1696

pincher1717

pincer1796

1717 J. Chamberlayne tr. Lives French, Ital. & German Philosophers 360 One might easily distinguish in it [sc. a centipede] two Eyes, two Horns, a Pincher made of two Branches, [etc.].

1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. IV. vi. 140 There is a sort of hornet in the East-Indies, that have a claw like a pincher or nipper of a crab, with which they pinch so hard, that they will not let go their hold.

1900 Amer. Naturalist 34 841 The second and third joints of each chelicera form a pair of pinchers.

1940 E. Blunden Poems 1930–40 76 Fixing his pinchers on the snake, Thus spake The crab: ‘It's Time for you, mate.’

1986 A. C. Clarke Songs Distant Earth iv. xxv. 88 The giant scorpion..continued to snip away at the seaweed with its formidable pinchers.

1993 Nature Conservancy Nov.–Dec. 32/2 The Puritan tiger beetle, a leggy, half-inch-long bug with big pinchers, is a voracious predator.

†3. A person who uses a pinch or crowbar. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Pincher, among quarrymen &c., a person using a pinch, in contradistinction to those otherwise engaged in moving a stone, etc.

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

单词	pincher
释义	pinchern. Brit. /ˈpɪn(t)ʃə/, U.S. /ˈpɪn(t)ʃər/ Forms: Middle English pynchar, Middle English pyncher, Middle English pynchere, 1500s– pincher, 1800s pinashear (Scottish (north-eastern)), 1800s– pinsher (English regional (Yorkshire)). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pinch v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < pinch v. + -er suffix¹.In form pinashear apparently influenced by shear n.¹ 1. Now frequently as the second element in compounds (see bottom pincher n. at bottom n. and adj. Compounds 3, penny-pincher n.). a. A person who or thing which pinches; †a torturer (obsolete).In quot. 1368 apparently referring to a kind of woman's headdress. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > torturer pinerOE wiþerlaȝec1175 tormentorc1290 pincher1368 tortor1570 torturer1597 torture-monger1615 excruciator1864 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > [noun] > one who presses, squeezes, etc. pincher1368 niper1440 crusher1598 squeezer1611 thronger1648 1368 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1929) II. 91 (MED) [A] forcer [with 2] keverchefs [and other] pynchers..[for a woman's head]. a1450 R. Spaldyng Katereyn in Anglia (1907) 30 546 (MED) Þo pynchars vs haf pynd ay, Þou kille hem, Kateryn kynd ay, And profor vs þi pesse! 1658 J. Spencer Καινα και Παλαια 602 Such are all biting Usurers, that gorge themselves with the spoyl of their poorer brethren.., the bibbers of their bloud, the pinchers of their hearts. 1749 S. Fielding Governess 7 On hearing her friend..scream out, that she was hurt by a sly Pinch from one of the Girls, she flew on this sly Pincher, as she called her, like an enraged Lion. 1783 W. Bailey Western & Midland Directory 157 Bell, Joseph, Glass Pincher, Cherry street. 1841 Times 4 Dec. 2/6 James Goldsmith, a pincher off of the gutta percha tubing, dead. 1884 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 254/2 The respective muscle and pluck of the pincher and the pinched. 1917 E. W. Blashfield Portraits & Backgrounds iii. 344 War itself..is always regarded as a pincher of wallets rather than as a sunderer of companions. 1987 E. Simpson Orphans (1988) i. ii. 26 Whisperers, pinchers, gigglers, players-with-string..stood with their faces to the wall. b. A detractor; a miser, haggler. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person nithinga1225 chinch?a1300 nigc1300 chincher1333 shut-purse1340 niggardc1384 haynec1386 nigona1400 pinchera1425 pinchpenny?c1425 pynepenya1450 pelt1511 chincherda1529 churl1535 pinchbeck1538 carl?1542 penny-father1549 nipfarthing1566 nipper?1573 holdfast1576 pinchpence1577 pinch fistc1580 pinchfart1592 shit-sticks1598 clunchfist1606 puckfist1606 sharp-nose1611 spare-good1611 crib1622 hog grubber?1626 dry-fist1633 clusterfist1652 niggardling1654 frummer1659 scrat1699 sting-hum1699 nipcheese1785 pincha1825 screw1825 wire-drawer1828 close-fist1861 penny-pincher1875 nip-skin1876 parer1887 pinch-plum1892 cheapskate1899 meanie1902 tightwad1906 stinge1914 penny-peeler1925 mean1938 stiff1967 a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 130 (MED) Fleschly iangelers, glosers, & blamers, roukers & rouners & alle maner of pynchers, kept I neuer þat þei sawe þis book, for myn entent was neuer to write soche þing to hem. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 347 Muglard, or nyggarde (or pynchar, infra), tenax, avarus, cupidi[n]arius. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Regaton A pedler, a broaker, a pincher in buying, a hucster. 1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 51 Wee commonly take him as a carper, and a pincher at all thinges that are done with any opinion of well dooing. 1706 House-keeper's Guide ii. 52 She must know how to keep within her compass, and yet to avoid the Reproach of a Pincher. 1887 G. Gissing Thyrza III. iii. 62 Cold-blooded pinchers and parers. 1913 J. London Valley of Moon i. ii. 14 Most of them are pinchers—that's why they don't come early, so as to get out of taking the girls to dinner. c. Originally slang. A person who steals something; a thief. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] thief688 bribera1387 stealer1508 taker?a1513 goodfellow1566 snatcher1575 lift1591 liftera1592 larcin1596 Tartar1602 lime-twig1606 outparter1607 Tartarian1608 flick1610 puggard1611 gilt1620 nim1630 highwayman1652 cloyer1659 out-trader1660 Robin Goodfellow1680 birdlime1705 gyp1728 filch1775 kiddy1780 snaveller1781 larcenist1803 pincher1814 geach1821 wharf-rat1823 toucher1837 larcener1839 snammer1839 drummer1856 gun1857 forker1867 gunsmith1869 nabber1880 thiever1899 tea-leaf1903 gun moll1908 nicker1909 knocker-off1926 possum1945 scuffler1961 rip-off1969 1814 W. H. Ireland Jack Junk ii. 39 Pinch produces soon the clothes; And taking payment—pincher true—Nabs just six shillings more than's due. 1877 Vagabond Ann. 136 You have to be a bit of a magsman, a pincher, a picker-up, a flatcatcher, a bester. 1910 Iowa City Daily Press 20 Apr. 7/4 The pinchers and grabbers..get on crowded elevators where women are. One of the..gentlemen..got my fine alum Kohinoor scarfpin. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang Pincher, a thief, esp. a shoplifter. 2000 Aberdeen Evening Express (Nexis) 5 Oct. 20 The shop security network is collaborating to shut out the persistent pinchers. 2. spec. a. An instrument for pinching or grasping something; (in plural frequently) = a pair of pincers at pincer n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers tongsc725 tongsc890 pinsons1356 turkis1390 pincersa1400 twitches?a1425 pinching iron1519 pincette?1533 spinsers1539 pincher1573 twitcher1573 tenailles1597 quitch1600 tenalia1603 forceps1634 vellicle1676 snapdragon1833 1573 G. Gascoigne tr. Ariosto Supposes ii. iv, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 23 He maye as sone get one of his teeth from his iawes with a paire of pinchers, as a pennie out of his purse with suche a conceite. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Catollo, a tormenting instrument called a griper or pincher. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xi. 37) iii. 213 The..Persecutors..plucked off..his flesh with red hot pinchers. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 187/2 Clamps are Pinchers with which Foxes and Badgers are taken out of the Earth. 1709 Brit. Apollo: Supernumerary Paper May [A tooth] which I can't pull out with a Pincher. 1763 J. Woodforde Diary 13 June in W. N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley Woodforde at Oxf. (1969) 134 For a P^r. of second-hand Pinchers o. o. 6. a1832 Secret Songs Silence (Buchan) in M. Shoolbraid High-kilted Muse (2010) 42 Wi' hammer, and wi' pina shears And rivets all o' metal. 1868 T. H. Key Philol. Ess. 191 Thus forcipes, as ‘a pair of pinchers’ for the extraction of teeth, is used by Lucilius. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 682/1 Pincher,..a nipping tool fitting the inside and outside of a bottle, in order to shape the mouth. 1900 Shetland News 3 Feb. Da faider hed ta poo da nail wi' his pinchers. 1971 J. S. Gunn Opal Terminol. 34 Pincher, used to clip off stone to see if good opal is underneath. 1985 Catal. Sale Horse-drawn Vehicles 6 Mar. 13 Farrier's pinchers. b. Chiefly Zoology. In arthropods: any of various paired appendages that pinch or nip, as the chela of a crab or scorpion, the mandibles of an insect, and the forceps of an earwig. Usually in plural. Cf. pincer n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of > parts of > pincer-like claws shears1682 nipper1696 pincher1717 pincer1796 1717 J. Chamberlayne tr. Lives French, Ital. & German Philosophers 360 One might easily distinguish in it [sc. a centipede] two Eyes, two Horns, a Pincher made of two Branches, [etc.]. 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. IV. vi. 140 There is a sort of hornet in the East-Indies, that have a claw like a pincher or nipper of a crab, with which they pinch so hard, that they will not let go their hold. 1900 Amer. Naturalist 34 841 The second and third joints of each chelicera form a pair of pinchers. 1940 E. Blunden Poems 1930–40 76 Fixing his pinchers on the snake, Thus spake The crab: ‘It's Time for you, mate.’ 1986 A. C. Clarke Songs Distant Earth iv. xxv. 88 The giant scorpion..continued to snip away at the seaweed with its formidable pinchers. 1993 Nature Conservancy Nov.–Dec. 32/2 The Puritan tiger beetle, a leggy, half-inch-long bug with big pinchers, is a voracious predator. †3. A person who uses a pinch or crowbar. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Pincher, among quarrymen &c., a person using a pinch, in contradistinction to those otherwise engaged in moving a stone, etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1368
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