pinching

CIDE DICTIONARY

pinching, a. 

 Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.  [1913 Webster]

Pinching bar, a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4. -- Pinching nut, a check nut. See under Check, n.

THESAURUS

pinching

Siberian, abstraction, algid, annexation, appropriation, arctic, avaricious, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boosting, boreal, brisk, brumal, cheap, cheeseparing, close, closefisted, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, conversion, conveyance, crisp, cutting, economy, economy of assumption, economy of means, elegance, embezzlement, filching, fraud, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frugality, gelid, glacial, graft, hardfisted, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, illiberal, inclement, keen, law of parsimony, liberation, lifting, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, niggardly, nipping, nippy, numbing, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penetrating, penny-pinching, piercing, pilferage, pilfering, pinchfisted, pinchpenny, poaching, raw, rigorous, save-all, scrimping, scrounging, severe, sharp, shoplifting, skimping, sleety, slushy, snappy, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, stingy, stinting, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, swindle, swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, tight, tightfisted, ungenerous, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry

ROGET THESAURUS

pinching

Cold

N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.