1 a very small area of sth, especially light:
His eyes narrowed to two small pinpricks of black.
2 a very small hole in sth, especially one that has been made by a pin:
The only mark on her was a pinprick left by the injection.
3 something that annoys you even though it is small and unimportant:
Nausea and tiredness were mere pinpricks compared to the emotional pain she was feeling.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for pinprick is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is pinprick a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, pinprick is tagged as noun.
Does pinprick appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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