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pinchability (uncountable)

1. The quality of being pinchable.
   • 1966, Gerald Hammond, chapter 4, in The Loose Screw (Linford Mystery Library), large print edition, Leicester, Leicestershire: Linford, published January 1988, →ISBN, page 113:

     “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 . . . ?”

   • 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 House, →ISBN, page 571, column 1:

     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.

   • 1990, Jay Jacobs, “It Was a Turkey”, in A Glutton for Punishment: Confessions of a Mercenary Eater, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, pages 105–106:

     With few exceptions, the popularity of a given place has more to do with quantity than quality, and the caliber of the provender is far outweighed by the availability of parking space, the pinchability of the waitresses, and the liberality of the bartender.