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pinch-gut
ˈpinch-gut, n. (a.) Now Obs. or vulgar. [f. pinch- + gut.] 1. One who stints himself or others of food: = pinch-belly (pinch-).a 1659 Lady Alimony ii. ii, A Mundungo's Monopolist, a paltry-penurious-pecking pinchgut. 1699 T. Brown in R. L'Estrange Erasm. Colloq. (1711) 356 Did old Pinch-gut devour a...
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Pinch Gut Creek (Brown Creek tributary)
Pinch Gut Creek is a tributary of Brown Creek in Anson County, North Carolina that rises southeast of Polkton, North Carolina and then flows south to meet Brown Creek east of Polkton. The watershed is about 70% forested, 23% agricultural and the rest is of other land uses. See also
List of North Car...
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pinch-
pinch- in Comb.: [chiefly the imperative or verb-stem with the second element in objective relation to it; sometimes the n.] pinch-back, one who pinches his own or another's back, by stinting it of proper clothing; also attrib.; pinch-bar = pinch n. 16: see quot.; pinch-batter = pinch-hitter; pinch-...
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Pinch District, Memphis
The area was known as Pinch-Gut, in reference to the starving look of many of its impoverished residents.
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▪ I. † nig, n.1 Obs. rare. [Of obscure origin. Agrees in meaning with Sw. njugg (dial. nugg, nygg) and with Icel. hnögg- (Norw. nögg), but there is no obvious connexion in form or history with these. Cf. also Norw. and Sw. dial. nigla, to live sparingly, to niggle.] A niggardly or mean person.a 1300...
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