nickel-and-dimeadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌnɪkl(ə)n(d)ˈdʌɪm/, U.S.

/ˌnɪk(ə)l(ə)nˈdaɪm/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nickel n., and conj.¹, dime n.

Etymology: < nickel n. + and conj.¹ + dime n. Compare later nickel-dime adj. In use as noun, rhyming slang for time n., int., and conj.

A. adj.

North American colloquial. That is sold for a small sum, inexpensive, unostentatious; (also) designating a shop, bank, etc., in which transactions are conducted in small amounts; (in extended use) minor, trivial, insignificant. Cf. five-and-dime store at five adj. and n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1879 Iowa State Reporter 20 Aug. 1/6 The booksellers of Freeport, Ill., have entered into a mutual agreement not to keep for sale on their counters the nickel and dime novels with which the country is flooded.

1897 San Antonio (Texas) Sunday Light 1 Aug. The original Nickel And Dime Store is on the Southeast Corner of South Flores and West Nueva Streets.

1917 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 20 Mar. 7/5 Detective Sergeant Peter Junk yesterday searched for a man who passed an imitation $10 confederate bill in the Kresge nickel and dime store.

1937 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 32 794 The optimum size of sales transaction lies somewhere above the low point of the typical nickel and dime business.

1941 R. Macaulay & J. Wald Manpower (film script) in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997) II. 655/1 A nickel-and-dime dame.

1959 J. D. Horan Mob's Man 103 That nickel and dime game?

1982 A. Tyler Dinner at Homesick Restaurant iii. 92 Never..was there anything nickel-and-dime..about the Tanner Corporation.

2000 N.Y. Press 29 Mar. ii. 18/4 The obtuseness and pettiness of these nickel-and-dime crooks leaves my stomach in knots.

B. n.

British slang. (Without hyphens.) Time. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 80/1 Nickel and dime, time.

1960 J. Franklyn Dict. Rhyming Slang 100/2 Nickel and dime, time.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

nickel-and-dimev.

Brit.

/ˌnɪkl(ə)n(d)ˈdʌɪm/, U.S.

/ˌnɪk(ə)l(ə)nˈdaɪm/

Inflections: Past participle nickel and dimed, nickeled and dimed;

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nickel-and-dime adj.

Etymology: < nickel-and-dime adj.

North American colloquial.

1. transitive. To treat in a penny-pinching or parsimonious manner; to harass or wear down with trivialities, esp. by excessive attention to small items of expenditure. Also with phrase as complement: to bring to a specified state or condition in this way.

ΘΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly of [verb (transitive)] > treat in niggardly manner

princhea1393

pinch1557

scantle1581

scant1607

shavea1610

niggarda1616

churl1696

nickel-and-dime1913

1913 Washington Post 20 Apr. (Miscellany section) 3/6 ‘They nickel and dime you to death these days,’ ‘Alex’ informed a visitor the other day. ‘Why, if I was to get a $dollar.5 tip now I would retire.’

1967 R. Morris Thoroughly Mod. Millie (film script) in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997) II. 655/1 Rich people can nickel-and-dime you to death.

1970 Washington Post 18 Oct. b4/6 What they're trying to do now is to nickel-and-dime us to death with booby traps and terrorism.

1982 R. Sheppard & M. Valpy National Deal ii. 23 We got nickeled and dimed to death between '74 and '79, and we would not make the same mistake again.

1993 UnixWorld Feb. 25/3 We don't nickel-and-dime our customers like some vendors that charge extra for every little utility.

2000 High Country News 14 Feb. 7/4 Granted, it was $2 to $5, but that was nickel and diming people.

2. intransitive. To beg. Now rare.

ΘΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)]

thigc1300

begc1384

crave1393

to go a-begged1393

prowl1530

to go (or have been) a begging1535

maund?1536

to bear the wallet1546

cant1567

prog1579

to turn to bag and wallet1582

skelder1602

maunder1611

strike1618

emendicate1623

mendicate1623

to go a-gooding1646

mump1685

shool1736

cadge1819

to stand pad1841

stag1860

bum1870

schnorr1875

panhandle1894

pling1915

stem1924

nickel-and-dime1942

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang § 487/3 Nickel-and-dime, to beg on the streets.

3. transitive. To work (one's way) by thrift, or by the accumulation of small amounts of money; (also in extended use, esp. in American Football) to inch (one's way), to gain ground slowly but steadily. Also with it.

1963 Time 15 Nov. 103 By 1929 they had ‘nickeled-and-dimed’ their way to their first million, then lost it all in the crash.

1973 Newsweek 5 Mar. 24/2 Joe DePrimo..worked his way through New York's Richmond College with the help of G.I. benefits and part-time jobs... ‘I nickeled-and-dimed it all through college,’ says DePrimo.

1985 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 8 Dec. It was frustrating how they nickeled and dimed their way down the field.

1995 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 Sept. 6 d St. Louis defensive backs aided the cause with generally strong coverage, preventing big plays and forcing the Packers to nickel-and-dime their way down the field.

1999 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 8 Mar. 1 c ‘We nickel-and-dimed it to get it down to where it is,’ said Costa. The current budget is about $371,000 lower than his original request.

Derivatives

ˌnickel-and-ˈdiming n. and adj.

1972 New Yorker 16 Sept. 124/2 A landscape that transcends all the nickel-and-diming defeats of our urbanology.

1977 Time 21 Feb. 50/2 He promises a first-class report: ‘We're not going to settle for nickel-and-diming.’

2001 Capital Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. 8 a As time passes, it is reasonable to assume we will see more of the nickel-and-diming that leads to..lower than acceptable levels of actual security.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nickel-and-dime
释义	nickel-and-dimeadj.n. Brit. /ˌnɪkl(ə)n(d)ˈdʌɪm/, U.S. /ˌnɪk(ə)l(ə)nˈdaɪm/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nickel n., and conj.¹, dime n. Etymology: < nickel n. + and conj.¹ + dime n. Compare later nickel-dime adj. In use as noun, rhyming slang for time n., int., and conj. A. adj. North American colloquial. That is sold for a small sum, inexpensive, unostentatious; (also) designating a shop, bank, etc., in which transactions are conducted in small amounts; (in extended use) minor, trivial, insignificant. Cf. five-and-dime store at five adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1879 Iowa State Reporter 20 Aug. 1/6 The booksellers of Freeport, Ill., have entered into a mutual agreement not to keep for sale on their counters the nickel and dime novels with which the country is flooded. 1897 San Antonio (Texas) Sunday Light 1 Aug. The original Nickel And Dime Store is on the Southeast Corner of South Flores and West Nueva Streets. 1917 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 20 Mar. 7/5 Detective Sergeant Peter Junk yesterday searched for a man who passed an imitation $10 confederate bill in the Kresge nickel and dime store. 1937 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 32 794 The optimum size of sales transaction lies somewhere above the low point of the typical nickel and dime business. 1941 R. Macaulay & J. Wald Manpower (film script) in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997) II. 655/1 A nickel-and-dime dame. 1959 J. D. Horan Mob's Man 103 That nickel and dime game? 1982 A. Tyler Dinner at Homesick Restaurant iii. 92 Never..was there anything nickel-and-dime..about the Tanner Corporation. 2000 N.Y. Press 29 Mar. ii. 18/4 The obtuseness and pettiness of these nickel-and-dime crooks leaves my stomach in knots. B. n. British slang. (Without hyphens.) Time. Now rare. ΚΠ 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 80/1 Nickel and dime, time. 1960 J. Franklyn Dict. Rhyming Slang 100/2 Nickel and dime, time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nickel-and-dimev. Brit. /ˌnɪkl(ə)n(d)ˈdʌɪm/, U.S. /ˌnɪk(ə)l(ə)nˈdaɪm/ Inflections: Past participle nickel and dimed, nickeled and dimed; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nickel-and-dime adj. Etymology: < nickel-and-dime adj. North American colloquial. 1. transitive. To treat in a penny-pinching or parsimonious manner; to harass or wear down with trivialities, esp. by excessive attention to small items of expenditure. Also with phrase as complement: to bring to a specified state or condition in this way. ΘΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly of [verb (transitive)] > treat in niggardly manner princhea1393 pinch1557 scantle1581 scant1607 shavea1610 niggarda1616 churl1696 nickel-and-dime1913 1913 Washington Post 20 Apr. (Miscellany section) 3/6 ‘They nickel and dime you to death these days,’ ‘Alex’ informed a visitor the other day. ‘Why, if I was to get a $dollar.5 tip now I would retire.’ 1967 R. Morris Thoroughly Mod. Millie (film script) in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997) II. 655/1 Rich people can nickel-and-dime you to death. 1970 Washington Post 18 Oct. b4/6 What they're trying to do now is to nickel-and-dime us to death with booby traps and terrorism. 1982 R. Sheppard & M. Valpy National Deal ii. 23 We got nickeled and dimed to death between '74 and '79, and we would not make the same mistake again. 1993 UnixWorld Feb. 25/3 We don't nickel-and-dime our customers like some vendors that charge extra for every little utility. 2000 High Country News 14 Feb. 7/4 Granted, it was $2 to $5, but that was nickel and diming people. 2. intransitive. To beg. Now rare. ΘΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)] thigc1300 begc1384 crave1393 to go a-begged1393 prowl1530 to go (or have been) a begging1535 maund?1536 to bear the wallet1546 cant1567 prog1579 to turn to bag and wallet1582 skelder1602 maunder1611 strike1618 emendicate1623 mendicate1623 to go a-gooding1646 mump1685 shool1736 cadge1819 to stand pad1841 stag1860 bum1870 schnorr1875 panhandle1894 pling1915 stem1924 nickel-and-dime1942 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang § 487/3 Nickel-and-dime, to beg on the streets. 3. transitive. To work (one's way) by thrift, or by the accumulation of small amounts of money; (also in extended use, esp. in American Football) to inch (one's way), to gain ground slowly but steadily. Also with it. Π 1963 Time 15 Nov. 103 By 1929 they had ‘nickeled-and-dimed’ their way to their first million, then lost it all in the crash. 1973 Newsweek 5 Mar. 24/2 Joe DePrimo..worked his way through New York's Richmond College with the help of G.I. benefits and part-time jobs... ‘I nickeled-and-dimed it all through college,’ says DePrimo. 1985 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 8 Dec. It was frustrating how they nickeled and dimed their way down the field. 1995 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 Sept. 6 d St. Louis defensive backs aided the cause with generally strong coverage, preventing big plays and forcing the Packers to nickel-and-dime their way down the field. 1999 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 8 Mar. 1 c ‘We nickel-and-dimed it to get it down to where it is,’ said Costa. The current budget is about $371,000 lower than his original request. Derivatives ˌnickel-and-ˈdiming n. and adj. Π 1972 New Yorker 16 Sept. 124/2 A landscape that transcends all the nickel-and-diming defeats of our urbanology. 1977 Time 21 Feb. 50/2 He promises a first-class report: ‘We're not going to settle for nickel-and-diming.’ 2001 Capital Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. 8 a As time passes, it is reasonable to assume we will see more of the nickel-and-diming that leads to..lower than acceptable levels of actual security. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1879v.1913
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