topinch

Created from to pinch, as if to- (“intensively, severely”) +‎ pinch.

topinch (third-person singular simple present topinches, present participle topinching, simple past and past participle topinched)

1. (obsolete) To pinch severely.

   Then let them all encircle him about / And, fairy-like, topinch the unclean knight. — Shakespeare.

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