topinch

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)

1. (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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     Then let them all encircle him about
     And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight.

Anagrams

• pitch on