English

Adjective

pinching ‎(comparative more pinching, superlative most pinching)

1. That pinches, or causes such a sensation
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.

Verb

pinching

1. present participle of pinch

Noun

pinching ‎(plural pinchings)

1. The act of one who or that which pinches.
   • 2012, Paul Theroux, The Lower River

     Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.