单词 | pinny |
释义 | pinnyn. colloquial and nursery. A pinafore; an apron, esp. one with a bib. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > pinafore pincloth1580 daidle17.. pinafore1782 pinbefore1793 daidlie1828 pinny1850 dab1877 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > pinafore dress slip1690 pinny1850 pinafore dress1895 pinafore frock1899 jumper suit1908 jumper dress1939 pinarette1951 jumper1967 1850 J. Crawford Doric Lays 65 Sae proud about your braw new peenie. 1884 R. D. Blackmore Hist. Sir T. Upmore II. 240 All the children..with their pinnies full of sugar-plums. 1890 M. Oliphant Kirsteen I. vi. 107 A bit lassie in a peenny. 1939 A. Thirkell Brandons i. 18 If we had known mummie was coming, we'd have had our clean pinny on. 1962 J. Braine Life at Top xvii. 198 ‘Get me a bloody pinny,’ I said, ‘and you can go out to work.’ 1990 Good Housek. (U.K. ed.) May 237 (heading) As another barbecue season rolls in, Rosemary Stark ruminates on the annual resurgence of men in pinnies. Derivatives ˈpinnied adj. dressed in an apron or pinafore; cf. pinafored adj. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing clothing for body (and limbs) > wearing clothing that covers or protects aproned1628 blue-aproned1640 pinafored1827 pinnied1963 1963 Guardian 20 Feb. 7/2 The pinny-ed skivvy. 2003 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 25 Mar. (Good Living section) 19 Black-shirted and pinnied staff whizz about serving food and drinks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pinnyadj. 1. Of soil: rough, hard; not easily worked; esp. consisting largely of clay and chalk. Cf. pinnocky adj. Now English regional (southern) and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > dense sad?1440 stiff?1523 pinnya1684 pinnocky1875 a1684 R. Pratt Note-bk. in R. T. Gunther Archit. Sir Roger Pratt (1928) 220 The Stone came from Chilmarke 18 miles distant... All in one quarry there were these several beds, the green, the Clary, the Boarding, the Pinny. 1699 J. Brewer Let. 25 Jan. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1700) 22 485 A Bed of a bluish sort of Clay, very hard, brittle and rugged; They call it a pinny Clay. 1799 R. Townson Tracts & Observ. Nat. Hist. & Physiol. 170 Pinny Measure... A blackish grey dry clay, containing iron nodules. 1803 J. Plymley Gen. View Agric. Shropshire 54 Pinny-measure; a pale-blue clod, in which lies a large quantity of small balls of iron-stone, called pennystone. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Pinny-land, arable land where the chalk comes close to the surface, as opposed to the deeper clay land. a1905 E. H. Rycroft in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) Suppl. 157/2 [Hampshire] Pinny, applied to stiff clay on the top of the chalk land. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [adjective] > other types of steel blistered1744 pinny1789 roky1889 constructional1894 rimming1926 1789 C. R. Hopson tr. J. C. Wiegleb Gen. Syst. Chem. ii. iv. 421 Unequal [iron], or that which is soft and hard in one and the same bar; or which contains either crude iron, grains of steel, or else what are called flint grains..intermixed with its substance; iron of this last quality is termed pinny by the workers in iron and steel. 1795 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 324 Notwithstanding this uneven and pinny appearance of the filed surface, a polish was produced. 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 261 He used the technical term already quoted from Dr. Pearson, observing that it was pinny. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] > matted or tangled pinny1831 pinned1890 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > clogged or stuck together with dirt > [adjective] filthy-feltered1581 gummy1640 cloggy1658 clodded1688 clotted1726 pinny1890 1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 81 in Farm-rep. What is open in the staple, or inclined to be pinny in the fleece, are haifed below the double shepherd's house. 1890 Cent. Dict. XVI. 4502/1 Pinny, pinned; clogged; choked; as, a pinny file. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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