pin-pricked

English

Adjective

pin-pricked (comparative more pin-pricked, superlative most pin-pricked)

1. Having been pricked by a pin; having a pin stuck through.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:

     [B]ut Gillespie was too tough or insensitive to feel the lethal waves sent out from his pin-pricked image.