What is "pinchings"

Usage examples of "pinchings".

The comments, the pinchings, the endless catalogue of minor sexual impositions that men had for so long practised with impunity.

At first, Ruggedo had continued his pinchings and punchings and hair pullings but, at last, fearing detection, he had stopped his mischievous teasing and seated himself calmly in Ozma's chair at the head of the banquet table.

In the house of Master Thomas, I was made – for the first time in seven years to feel the pinchings of hunger, and this was not very easy to bear.

But what pleased me most was one outbreak of his, when we had been talking all the evening of the rubs, indignities, and pinchings of his wandering life.