Pinch vs. Snitch

Pinchverb

To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

‘The children were scolded for pinching each other.’; ‘This shoe pinches my foot.’;

Snitchverb

(transitive) To steal, quickly and quietly.

Pinchverb

To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.

Snitchverb

(transitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.

Pinchverb

To squeeze between two objects.

Snitchverb

To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.

Pinchverb

To steal, usually something inconsequential.

‘Someone has pinched my handkerchief!’;

Snitchnoun

A thief.

Pinchverb

To arrest or capture.

Snitchnoun

An informer, usually one who betrays his group.

Pinchverb

(horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.

Snitchnoun

(British) A nose.

Pinchverb

(nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.

Snitchnoun

A tiny morsel.

Pinchverb

(hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

Snitchnoun

someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

Pinchverb

To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.

Snitchverb

take by theft;

‘Someone snitched my wallet!’;

Pinchverb

To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.

Snitchverb

give away information about somebody;

‘He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam’;

Pinchverb

(figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

‘to be pinched for money’;

Snitchverb

steal

‘he snitched the umbrella for when he went fishing’; ‘she was snitching a look out of the window’;

Pinchverb

To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.

Snitchverb

inform on someone

‘she wouldn't tell who snitched on me’;

Pinchverb

(obsolete) To complain or find fault.

Snitchnoun

an informer

‘they thought he was a plant or a snitch’;

Pinchnoun

The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

Pinchnoun

A close compression of anything with the fingers.

‘I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.’;

Pinchnoun

A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.

Pinchnoun

An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.

Pinchnoun

A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.

Pinchnoun

An organic herbal smoke additive.

Pinchnoun

(physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.

Pinchnoun

The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.

Pinchnoun

(slang) An arrest.

Pinchverb

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.

Pinchverb

to seize; to grip; to bite; - said of animals.

‘He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down.’;

Pinchverb

To plait.

‘Full seemly her wimple ipinched was.’;

Pinchverb

Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.

‘Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation.’;

Pinchverb

To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.

Pinchverb

To seize by way of theft; to steal; to lift.

Pinchverb

to catch; to arrest (a criminal).

Pinchverb

To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.

Pinchverb

To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

Pinchverb

To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.

‘The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare.’;

Pinchnoun

A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.

Pinchnoun

As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.

Pinchnoun

Pian; pang.

Pinchnoun

A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, - used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.

Pinchnoun

a painful or straitened circumstance;

‘the pinch of the recession’;

Pinchnoun

an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed

Pinchnoun

a slight but appreciable addition;

‘this dish could use a touch of garlic’;

Pinchnoun

a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action;

‘he never knew what to do in an emergency’;

Pinchnoun

small sharp biting

Pinchnoun

a squeeze with the fingers

Pinchnoun

the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal);

‘the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar’;

Pinchverb

squeeze tightly between the fingers;

‘He pinched her behind’; ‘She squeezed the bottle’;

Pinchverb

make ridges into by pinching together

Pinchverb

make off with belongings of others

Pinchverb

cut the top off;

‘top trees and bushes’;

Pinchverb

irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear;

‘smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth’; ‘the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back’;