piercing

Definition

  • noun: the act or practice of decorating your body with jewelry or other objects that are attached directly to your skin
  • adjective: as
  • synonyms: perforating, penetrating, keen

Examples

  • She looked at me with 'piercing' eyes, and I was suddenly frightened that she knew what I had done.

  • There's a small shop in town where they do tattooing and 'body piercing'.

  • She felt a 'piercing' sadness when she heard the news.

Movie quotes

  • (..) and down and you have to get up and find out where the sound is coming from. And you see this child pulling on something and yelling, (piercing voice) ''Mine!'' And at the end of it is an older child mumbling, ''No, you got this out of my room.'' And you go up quickly and you hit the older child. (..)
    1983 Bill Cosby: Himself
  • (..) Well, sometimes it belongs to someone else. So the others say, ''Give this back. This belongs to me.'' And the three-year-old says, (piercing voice) ''Mine! Mine! Mine!'' And this sound travels through the house and the vibrations seek out a grown person's spinal cord and it makes the legs go up (..)
    1983 Bill Cosby: Himself