Definitions for pinchbeck

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Spelling: [pinch-bek]
IPA: /ˈpɪntʃ bɛk/

Pinchbeck is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in pinchbeck (bccehiknp).

Definitions for pinchbeck

noun

  1. an alloy of copper and zinc, used in imitation of gold.
  2. something sham, spurious, or counterfeit.

adjective

  1. made of pinchbeck.
  2. sham, spurious, or counterfeit:

Origin of pinchbeck

1725-35; named after Christopher Pinchbeck (died 1732), English watchmaker and its inventor

Examples for pinchbeck

The sky was as dirty as the soul of this dealer in pinchbeck.

None of the pinchbeck pedigrees and ormolu titles of the continent.

The English lady was pinchbeck by contrast with all about her.

Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness.

The world is full of them—facile Lovers, craven, potent and pinchbeck.

But it was only a pinchbeck thing, an imitation, a bauble, an empty show.

The age of pinchbeck follows the age of gold, and a Louis XV.

Gold is gold, and pinchbeck is pinchbeck, in character as in metal.

There are pinchbeck imitations which are neither sacred nor helpful.

But in the opinion of the speaker these were pinchbeck heroics.

Word Value for pinchbeck
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