pincushion
Meaning of pincushion
noun
- A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.
- The names of various plants with flowers or other parts resembling a pincushion.
- A person who is pricked or stabbed multiple times with sharp objects; specifically, someone who receives regular hypodermic needle injections.
Insulin-dependent diabetics are human pincushions.
- To jab or stick repeatedly with one or more sharp objects, as with pins into a pincushion.
The target was pincushioned with arrows.
- To assume the shape of a pincushion; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit pincushion distortion, where the sides curve inwards.
Information about pincushion
- The plural form of pincushion is: pincushions.
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Hyphenation of pincushion
pin-cush-ion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- pincushion is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Anagrams of pincushion
Words that rhyme with pincushion
Echion, Munychion, falchion, fauchion, faulchion, nunchion, orecchion, panchion, scuchion, stanchion, stenchion, trichion, Amphion, Ophion, amphion, crotaphion, gumphion, scaphion, sulphion, Cashion, antifashion, cushion, disfashion, encushion, fashion, fushion, hushion, misfashion, prefashion, recushion, refashion, semifashion, spermashion, transfashion, unfashion, upcushion, Emathion, Fenthion, Gorgythion, Malathion, acanthion, apocynthion, apsinthion, athidathion, carbophenothion, cathion, cekumethion, cekutrothion, chemathion, chlorothion
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