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bepinching

bepinching is the present participle and gerund of bepinch.

Meaning of bepinch

Verb

bepinch (third-person singular simple present bepinches, present participle bepinching, simple past and past participle bepinched)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To pinch, or mark with pinches.
    • shoulders , all bepinch'd[1611?], Homer, “Book XXIII”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […]...
  2. (dialectal, transitive) To pinch all over.

Questions about bepinching

What is bepinching the present participle and gerund of?
Bepinching is the present participle and gerund of bepinch.

Words near bepinching in the dictionary

  1. bepillared
  2. bepimpled
  3. bepinch
  4. bepinched
  5. bepinches
  6. bepinching
  7. bepiped
  8. bepiss
  9. bepissed
  10. bepisses
  11. bepissing

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