pinprickedadj.
/ˈpɪnprɪkt/, U.S. /ˈpɪnˌprɪkt/ That has been pricked with a pin; perforated with tiny holes.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > pierced
launched1601
pinked1608
pinpricked1781
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > [adjective] > type of print
Arundel1872
pinpricked1936
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > bored, pierced, or perforated > with a sharp-pointed instrument > pricked
pointed1440
rowelled1836
pinpricked1936
1781 tr. ‘Monsieur Ventris’ Heroic Epist. 13 Through their pin-prick'd fans young misses peep.
1870 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Suppl. Mar. 4/1 [Stamps] with pin-pricked perforations.
1898 J. Hutchinson in Arch. Surg. 9 No. 36. 374 Dry and cracked finger-ends, with pin-pricked finger-nails.
1936 Discovery Oct. 321/2 That was a tragic pin which pricked out one of the last letters written by Marie Antoinette in the prison of the Conciergerie... The pin-pricked note miscarried.
1991 Quarterly (U.S.) Summer 52 My genes were bungled in the chromatic mistake of my mother's mowed-up hair and her pinpricked skin.
2004 Seattle Times (Nexis) 14 May (Sports section) d 1 The anger has dissipated like helium from a pinpricked balloon.
Compounds
pinpricked picture n. = pinprick picture n. at pinprick n. and adj. Compounds.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > [noun] > a print > types of print generally
sporting print1811
colour print1855
autotypy1872
metallograph1890
surimono1899
Medici print1906
restrike1912
cliché-verre1913
pinpricked picture1936
pinprick picture1943
kiss impression1946
original print1961
1936 Discovery Oct. 322/2 Some surviving specimens of these pin-pricked pictures date back two hundred years.
2003 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 10 Feb. 20 We showed them how to do pinpricked pictures and spinning tops.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1781