hinchv.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. As a rhyming synonym of pinch v.
a. intransitive.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly or mean [verb (intransitive)] > be miserly
to gather to store1303
snudge?1536
hinch1559
mise1579
1559 J. Aylmer Harborowe sig. P1 These Romaines..being..brought to the last cast by the long and daungerous warres of Hanibal and the Frenche, did..bring in their mony and goodes, without hinching or pinching, to reliefe the charges of their common welth.
1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. I3 What haue ye saude now..by your hinching and your pinching, not the worth of a blacke pudding.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 217 Stand not a hinching and a crinching with him.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Hinch, to be miserly. Linc.
b. transitive.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > nip or pinch
twingec1000
pinchc1230
pranglec1300
nip1381
nipe1440
hinch1590
nipskin1620
pincer1864
tweezer1911
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. H2v A doubt whether it were Loue or some other furie worse than Loue, that thus hincht him and pincht him.
2. intransitive ? To spurn.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > with contemptuous rejection
to think (it) scornc1320
daina1400
hinch1631
1631 J. Speed Loves Revenge To Rdr. Whereat if any kick or hinch, Were he not gauld, he should not winch.
a1640 W. Fenner Hidden Manna (1652) Ep. Ded. sig. B5 The more it is wilful, it hinches and winches, and snuffes against it.
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