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  • adjective Suitable for being pinched.

Etymologies

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pinch +‎ -able

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Examples

  • A nation of rubberneckers pausing to watch their own car wreck as though viewing it on a small, pinchable screen; so distanced from their own senses tragically having come to trust distrust, to embrace their own submissiveness, to ignore their own extinction.

    Steven Weber: A Little Pre-Christmas Cheer 2009

  • Remy Heymsfeld, it turned out, was a twenty-five-year-old male social worker “Remy is short for Jeremy”, enthusiastic as a golden retriever puppy, with fresh comb tracks in his damp brown hair and pinchable pink cheeks.

    Certain Girls Jennifer Weiner 2008

  • Remy Heymsfeld, it turned out, was a twenty-five-year-old male social worker “Remy is short for Jeremy”, enthusiastic as a golden retriever puppy, with fresh comb tracks in his damp brown hair and pinchable pink cheeks.

    Certain Girls Jennifer Weiner 2008

  • A pot belly full of visceral fat (the kind that is firm and not pinchable) on an otherwise thin person can indicate a higher risk for cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure and other metabolic problems.

    Does Height Make a Difference 2008

  • Remy Heymsfeld, it turned out, was a twenty-five-year-old male social worker “Remy is short for Jeremy”, enthusiastic as a golden retriever puppy, with fresh comb tracks in his damp brown hair and pinchable pink cheeks.

    Certain Girls Jennifer Weiner 2008

  • ~ Lose Your Love Handles Workout -- Love handles, those pinchable rolls of fat that sprout from the waistline, are one part of the body we love to hate.

    Speedlinking 8/31/07 William Harryman 2007

  • Well I don't know about being more pinchable, it's just that you didn't threaten to kick anyone's teeth in response to a pinch.

    One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited 2006

  • Her little boy, her gorgeous, sweet, pinchable little guy.

    Little Earthquakes Jennifer Weiner 2004

  • Yes he has a very fine ass if you'd like to know .... and yes it is MOST pinchable ...

    moschikat Diary Entry moschikat 2002

  • It was so unusual to hear a producer give opulent expression to the secret misgivings of directors and writers that it truly seemed as though a renaissance were upon us, even if one at times suspected that the mantle of the fanatical reformer lay uneasily on the shoulders of this volatile hedonist, with his unending stream of pinchable starlets.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

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