| 单词 | pirlie pig |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspirlie pig In full pirlie pig. A piggy bank. 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 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. < as lemmas |
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