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pin-money|ˈpɪnˌmʌnɪ|
[f. pin n.1 sense 3 + money: see sense a, quots. 1542–1640. (Cf. F. épingles, in Littré, sense 4.)]
a. An annual sum allotted to a woman for personal expenses in dress, etc.; esp. such an allowance settled upon a wife for her private expenditure. Also transf., spending money; money for incidental expenses; a trivial sum of money.
[1542Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 160, I give my said doughter Margarett my lease of the parsonadge of Kirkdall Churche..to by her pynnes withal. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iv. i. (1651) 540 Caligula gave an 100000 sesterces to his Curtisan..to buy her pins. 1640Earl of Cork in Lismore Papers Ser. 1. (1886) V. 160 Which Rent I haue bestowed on my daughter Mary to buy her pins.] 1697Vanbrugh Relapse v. v, Hoyden... He told me I should have two hundred a year to buy pins... Nurse. Ah, my dearest,..These Londoners have got a gibberidge with 'em would confound a gipsy. That which they call pin-money is to buy their wives everything in the varsal world. 1712Addison Spect. No. 295 ⁋2 The Doctrine of Pin-money is of a very late Date, unknown to our Great Grandmothers, and not yet received by many of our Modern Ladies. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. xxxii. 498 If she has any pinmoney or separate maintenance, it is said she may dispose of her savings thereout by testament, without the control of her husband. 1809M. Edgeworth Manœuvering ix, The point was, whether a wife should or should not have pin⁓money. 1892Munsey's Mag. Oct. 112/1 The late Rose Terry Cooke, popular as her writings were, never made more than pin money with her pen. 1897Tit-Bits 16 Oct. 48/1 A wealthy man..who allows her {pstlg}50 a year for pin money. 1926H. Crane Let. 1 June (1965) 256, I don't think you'll get pin money for the sale of the place. 1957Economist 26 Oct. 291/1 A much better system than relying solely on attendance pin money for all peers would be to pay a full MP's salary to..a score of ‘nominated’ peers on either side. 1971Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 94/2 In farming, we tend to use straw liberally and an odd wedge for a child to bed the rabbit hutch seems insignificant. But..you could..start a sideline enterprise. Good pin money? 1978S. Allan Inside Job i. 17 If you did find yourself short of pin money you..could get yourself a job.
b. attrib.
1837T. Bacon First Impr. Hindostan I. vi. 171 Marriage is..out of the question..unless..the young lady..have..a small pin-money purse of her own. 1908Daily Chron. 5 Oct. 5/6 This meeting..protests against the employment of the ‘pin-money clerk’, who is a menace to the clerks of both sexes. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1222/1 Pin-money spoof, vague, pointless amateurish writing: journalistic: since ca. 1910. 1977in Centuryan (Office Cleaning Services) Christmas 4/1 Six ‘pin-money’ schoolgirls whose journey home in a mini-bus ended in tragedy were being employed illegally. |