pinchability

Noun

pinchability (uncountable)

1. The quality of being pinchable.
   • “I wouldn’t have said you were the pinchable type, Jackie. You models are too greyhoundish to nip well. Betty, now . . .” / “For God’s sake,” said the inspector irritably, “must we have a discussion of relative pinchability just now? Miss Callender . . . ?”1966, Gerald Hammond, chapter 4, in The Loose Screw (Linford Mystery Library), large print edition, Leicester, Leicestershire: Linford, published January 1988, →ISBN, page 113
   • demand qualities, characters, or meanings The expressive qualities in the physiognomy of things that elicit particular feelings and behavior, often without prior learning; for example, the pinchability of a baby’s cheek.1979, L[awrence] Joseph Stone, Joseph Church, with Evelyn Raskin and Alexandria Church, “Glossary”, in Childhood & Adolescence: A Psychology of the Growing Person, 4th edition, New York, N.Y.: Random...