pinprick

pinprick
    n 1: a minor annoyance
    2: small puncture (as if made by a pin)
    

74 Moby Thesaurus words for "pinprick":
      a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bagatelle, bauble,
      bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, curio,
      cursoriness, epidermis, exteriority, farce, farthing, feather, fig,
      fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack,
      gloss, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, jest, joke, kickshaw,
      knickknack, knickknackery, mere scratch, minikin, mockery,
      molehill, no depth, no water, peppercorn, picayune, pin,
      pinch of snuff, rap, red cent, rind, row of pins, rush, scratch,
      shallowness, shit, shoaliness, skin, slightness, snap, sneeshing,
      sou, straw, superficiality, superficies, surface, toy, trifle,
      trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, veneer,
      whim-wham