pinprick

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: pin=prick

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pinprick, n.
1 a prick caused by a pin.
2 a trifling irritation.

THESAURUS

pinprick

a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, curio, cursoriness, epidermis, exteriority, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, gloss, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, mere scratch, minikin, mockery, molehill, no depth, no water, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, rap, red cent, rind, row of pins, rush, scratch, shallowness, shit, shoaliness, skin, slightness, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, superficiality, superficies, surface, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, veneer, whim-wham