Mary’s cat is so sweet that I really don’t mind him curling up in my lap, but the way he insists on kneading my legs with his claws makes me feel like a pincushion.
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Pincushion
//ˈpɪnˌkʊʃn̩//
Synonyms for "pincushion"
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12 entriesderived from
2 entriesis a
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6 entriesTranslations
40 translations across 21 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- buirac noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
- coixí d'agulles noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Czech
1 entries- jehelníček noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Dutch
1 entries- speldenkussen noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Finnish
4 entries- keräkaktus noun (pincushion cactus)
- korallimätäs noun (Nertera granadensis)
- neulaprotea noun (flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum)
- neulatyyny noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
French
2 entries- pelote à épingles noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
- pique-aiguille noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Galician
1 entries- agulleiro noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
German
1 entries- Nadelkissen noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Hungarian
1 entries- tűpárna noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Italian
3 entries- appuntaspilli noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
- cuscinetto noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
- torsello noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Korean
1 entries- 바늘겨레 noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Lithuanian
1 entries- žvaigždūnė noun (flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa)
Macedonian
1 entries- игленик noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- ایكنه یاصدغی noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Polish
2 entries- podduszeczka na igły noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
- poduszeczka noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Portuguese
1 entries- alfineteira noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Russian
1 entries- игольница noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Slovak
3 entries- ihelnica noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
- ihelnička noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
- ihelník noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Spanish
4 entries- acerico noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
- acerico noun (flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum)
- agujero noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
- alfiletero noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Swedish
1 entries- nåldyna noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Turkish
4 entries- iğne yastığı noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
- iğnedenlik noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
- iğnelik noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
- uyuz otu noun (flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa)
Welsh
1 entries- pincas noun (device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it)
Sample sentences
40 total sentences available.
Grandma gave me a sewing box with a needle, a pincushion, scissors, a ribbon, a zipper, a spool of thread, Velcro, and a tape measure.
Source: tatoeba (10692078)
Have you seen my pincushion?
Source: tatoeba (12434445)
Then for womens cloaths, the cabadge of cloath of ſilver, brancht Sattin, and the like, went for pin-cuſhions, pin-pillows, womens purſes; and if black, Church-wardens capes.
Source: wiktionary
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