Slap vs Pinch - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between slap and pinch

is that slap is a blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat while pinch is the action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

As verbs the difference between slap and pinch

is that slap is to give a slap while pinch is to squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

As an adverb slap

is exactly, precisely.

slap

English

Noun

(en noun)

A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.

The sound of such a blow.

(slang, uncountable) Makeup, cosmetics.

Usage notes

Especially used of blows to the face (aggressive), buttocks, and hand, frequently as a sign of reproach. Conversely, used of friendly strikes to the back, as a sign of camaraderie.

Hyponyms

* cuff

Derived terms

* bitch-slap * slap in the face * pimp-slap

Verb

(slapp)

To give a slap.

She slapped him in response to the insult.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

Mrs. Flanders rose, slapped her coat this side and that to get the sand off, and picked up her black parasol.

To cause something to strike soundly.

He slapped the reins against the horse's back.

To place, to put carelessly.

We'd better slap some fresh paint on that wall.

Derived terms

* slapper * slap-up

Hyponyms

* cuff

Adverb

(-)

Exactly, precisely

He tossed the file down slap in the middle of the table.

Synonyms

* just * right * slap bang * smack dab

Anagrams

* (l), (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

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)