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单词 pirlie
释义

pirlien.

Brit. /ˈpəːli/, U.S. /ˈpərli/, Scottish English /ˈpɪrlɪ/
Forms: 1700s– pirly, 1800s purley, 1800s purlie, 1800s purly, 1800s– pirley, 1800s– pirlie, 1900s– perlie, 1900s– perly, 1900s– pirrlie.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English pyrl , -y suffix6.
Etymology: Probably < Older Scots pyrl to thrust or poke at (see pirl v.) + -y suffix6. In the compound pirlie pig the second element is pig n.2; in Older Scots pirrel pig occurs in the same sense (see below; apparently < pirl v. + pig n.2; see further Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at that entry); the compound thus probably originally alluded to poking or prodding coins out of a pot.1679 in P. Baxter Shoemaker Incorporation of Perth (1927) 9 [The opening of] the pirrell pig [and £6 5s. 6d. found therein].
Scottish.
In full pirlie pig. A piggy bank.
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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
1799 ‘Philetas’ in J. Thomson Hist. Dundee (1874) i. x. 127 Old women and children kept their pozes in their kist neuks and pirly pigs.
1831 in Trans. Banffshire Field Club (1939) 33 One Stone purly 4/-.
1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xviii. 170 I mind he broke open his pirly,..an' bocht a ha'penny worth o' something to ye every day.
1900 Longman's Mag. Nov. 49 Donald did not possess a bike yet, and my ‘tips’ went into a perly pig in which he was saving up to buy one.
1934 H. B. Cruickshank Noran Water 15 Ye've riped the pirlie mony's the time Withooten ony skaith.
1999 Evening News (Edinburgh) (Nexis) 20 Oct. 12 He said the ‘pirlie pig’, as the ceramic money pots were known in Scotland, was not actually shaped like the animal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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