pin-pricked

adj

pin-pricked

adj

1

Having been pricked by a pin; having a pin stuck through.

[B]ut Gillespie was too tough or insensitive to feel the lethal waves sent out from his pin-pricked image.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:

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