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Pinprick   /pˈɪnprɪk/   Listen
Pinprick

noun
1.
A minor annoyance.
2.
Small puncture (as if made by a pin).





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"Pinprick" Quotes from Famous Books



... and moist as if a break in the weather were imminent. As they scrambled along the Garple Dean a pinprick of light below showed where the tinklers were busy by their fire. Dickson's spirits suffered a sharp fall and he began to marvel at his temerity. What in Heaven's name had he undertaken? To carry ...
— Huntingtower • John Buchan
... hall, the major glanced down first at the floor and then up to where in a pendent nub a pinprick of light like a captive lightning-bug flickered up and down feebly as the air pumped through the pipe; and out of his chest the major fetched a small sigh. It was a sigh of resignation, but it had loneliness in it too. Well, it was a come-down, after ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb


Words linked to "Pinprick" :   vexation, puncture, annoyance, botheration, irritation


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