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push-pin|ˈpʊʃpɪn|
[f. push- + pin n.1 See also put-pin.]
1. a. A child's game, in which each player pushes or fillips his pin with the object of crossing that of another player.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 169 To see..Nestor play at push-pin with the boyes, And Critticke Tymon laugh at idle toyes. 1645Wither Vox Pacif. 60 Conditions made By Boyes, or Girles, at Push-pin, or at Cat. 1648Herrick Hesper, Love's Play at Push-pin, Love and my selfe (beleeve me) on a day At childish Push-pin (for our sport) did play: I put, he pusht, and heedless of my skin Love prickt my finger with a golden pin. 1775Ash, Pushpin, a child's play in which pins are pushed with an endeavour to cross them. 1825Bentham Ration. Rew. 206 Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. 1906Fortn. Rev. Aug. 350 It was poetry and not push-pin that comforted Mill when he fell into despondency.
b. fig. As the type of trivial or insignificant occupation; child's play, triviality.
1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 15 Our Authors Divinity might have gone to Push-Pin with the Bishop. 1788Cowper Let. 21 Feb. in Davey's Catal. (1895) 20 Every⁓thing that we do is in reality important: though half that we do seems to be push-pin. 1820Examiner No. 623. 191/2 This is the push-pin of literary reading.
c. attrib. passing into adj. in fig. sense.
1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 39 (1713) I. 256 Come, let's hear a little of his Pushpin Labours. 1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 36 A meer childrens play and a worse than Push-pin diversion. 1780Cowper Table Talk 547 Every effort ends in push-pin play.
2. Chiefly U.S. (See quot. 1961.)
1923Geyer's Stationer 5 May 42 (Advt.), Extensive advertising has created big sales for Moore push-pins. Glass heads—steel points. 1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 448/2 Glass push pins... It is a steel point with a glass handle, and is surprisingly strong in wood and plaster..easily inserted, and as easily withdrawn. 1942Amer. Cinematographer Apr. 188/3 A story board is a large 4 × 8 foot piece of wallboard or celotex, on which the story sketches are pinned in rows with aluminium push-pins. 1961Webster, Pushpin, a steel point having a projecting glass or metal head for sticking into a wall or board and used chiefly as a picture hook or as an indicator on a map. 1974C. C. Woodard Cable Television vi. 138 A pushpin is stuck in the map at that location; and that pushpin's number is written in the Work Requested section. |