| 单词 | penny-pig |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenny-pig penny-pig n. Scottish an earthenware pot with a slot for collecting pence saved or received as gratuities, a money box. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun] > for savings > small pottery pyne pig1488 penny-piga1646 money pot1681 pirlie1799 pig bank1902 piggy bank1913 a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 13 Capsella fictilis, a penny pig. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 24 Feb. (1941) 27 Your penny-pig collections don't succeed. 1854 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North 10/1 You would not wish him, surely, to be always moping and musing in a corner..laying up his penny a-week pocket-money in a penny pig. 1927 Observer 18 Dec. 20 Our country people variously translate armadillidium vulgare as..‘lucre pig’, ‘thrush-louse’, ‘sow-bug’, ‘grammar-sow’, ‘pill-louse’, ‘penny-pig’, and by many more names of such quality. 2000 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 39 150 Melville used the proceeds of the kirkyard ‘penny-pig’ into which May game players deposited their fees for kirk repair and poor relief. < as lemmas |
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