Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt. · To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger. · To squeeze between two objects. · Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
From Middle English pinchen, from Old Northern French *pinchier (compare Old French pincier, pincer (“to pinch”)), a word of uncertain origin, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pinciāre (“to puncture, pinch”), from a merger of *punctiāre (“to puncture, sting”), from Latin punctiō (“a puncture, prick”) and *piccāre (“to strike, sting”), from Frankish *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick”). More at point, pick and pitch.
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