Pinch vs Crimp - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between pinch and crimp

is that pinch is to be niggardly or covetous while crimp is a card game.

As verbs the difference between pinch and crimp

is that pinch is to squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt while crimp is to fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

As nouns the difference between pinch and crimp

is that pinch is the action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt while crimp is a fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

As an adjective crimp is

easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

pinch

English

Verb

(es)

To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

The children were scolded for pinching each other.

This shoe pinches my foot.

To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.

Someone has pinched my handkerchief!

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(slang) To arrest or capture.

(horticulture) To cut shoots]] or [[bud, buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.

(nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.

(hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

(obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.

(Gower)

* Franklin

the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare

To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.

* Chapman

He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down.

(figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

to be pinched for money

* Sir Walter Raleigh

want of room pinching a whole nation

To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.

Noun

(es)

The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.

An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.

* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 171:

It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch', and it sure was a ' pinch .

An organic herbal smoke additive.

Derived terms

* feel the pinch * in a pinch * at a pinch * pinchy * take with a pinch of salt

Descendants

* Japanese: (pinchi)

crimp

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) crempen, from (etyl) . Germanic etymology. Cognate to Dutch krimpen, via Middle Dutch crimpen, to Low German crimpen, Origins, p. 130, by Eric Partridge and to Faroese . From or cognate to Old Norse kreppa. Possible cognate to cramp.

Adjective

(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

* J. Philips

Now the fowler treads the crimp earth.

(obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

* Arbuthnot

The evidence is crimp ; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves.

Noun

(en noun)

A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp .

(obsolete, UK, dialect) A coal broker.

(De Foe)

(obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.

(Marryat)

(obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

(usually, in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.

(obsolete) A card game.

(Ben Jonson)

Verb

(en verb)

To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

He crimped the wire in place.

To pinch and hold; to seize.

To style hair into a crimp.

To join the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwiches.

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

An agent making it his business to procure seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them. [Since the passing of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to one who infringes sub-section 1 of this Act, i.e. to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.]

* (rfdate)

When a master of a ship..has lost any of his hands, he applies to a crimp ..who makes it his business to seduce the men belonging to some other ship.

* (rfdate)

Trepanned into the West India Company's service by the crimps or silver-coopers as a common soldier.

* (rfdate)

Offering three guineas ahead to the crimps for every good able seaman.

* (rfdate)

I hear there are plenty of good men stowed away by the crimps at different places.

* (rfdate)

Sallying forth at night..he came near being carried off by a gang of crimps .

* (rfdate)

In the high and palmy days of the crimp , the pirate, the press-gang.

Verb

(en verb)

To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him. — Carlyle.

* (rfdate)

Plundering corn and crimping recruits.

* (rfdate)

Clutching at him, to crimp him or impress him.

* (rfdate)

The cruel folly which crimps a number of ignorant and innocent peasants, dresses them up in uniform..and sends them off to kill and be killed.

* (rfdate)

The Egyptian Government crimped negroes in the streets of Cairo.

* (rfdate)

Why not create customers in the Queen's dominions..instead of trying..to crimp them in other countries?

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