topinch
English edit
Etymology edit
Created from to pinch, as if to- (“intensively, severely”) + pinch.
Verb edit
topinch (third-person singular simple present topinches, present participle topinching, simple past and past participle topinched)
- (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.