pin mann.

Brit.

/ˈpɪn man/, U.S.

/ˈpɪn ˌmæn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pin n.¹, man n.¹

Etymology: < pin n.¹ + man n.¹

1. In early use: a man who sells pins. In later use: a man who collects, sells, or trades souvenir pins or badges. Now rare.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things

soaper?c1225

oilman1275

smear-monger1297

upholder1333

basket-seller?1518

broom-seller?1518

upholster1554

rod-woman1602

starchwoman1604

pin manc1680

colour seller1685

potato-woman1697

printseller1700

rag-seller1700

Greenwich barber1785

sandboy1821

iceman1834

umbrella man1851

fly-boy1861

snuff-boxera1871

pedlar1872

snake-boy1873

bric-a-brac man1876

tinwoman1884

resurrectionist1888

butch1891

paanwallah1955

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > needle- or pin-maker > [noun]

needler1275

pinner1281

pinmaker1350

needle-maker1571

reed-maker1627

pin manc1680

c1680 Crys of London 36 in J. W. Ebsworth Bagford Ballads (1876) I. 116 Here's your old Pin Man, a coming agen.

1726 C. Ellison Most Pleasant Descr. Benwel Village 192 This Chair fill'd Tinman, And That did Pin-man, [etc.]

1791 J. Wolcot Rights of Kings xvi, in Wks. (1816) II. 206 Fast by the grocer's, or the chandler's shop, Or lace, or pinman, or the man of mop.

1878 J. Inglis Sport & Work iv. 34 The pinmen are busy sorting their pins.

1988 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Sept. d12 You can count on seeing the Mexican pin man; he's shown up at all the Olympic Games of recent years, wearing a sombrero, his red suit covered from top to bottom with pins.

1991 Economist 3 Aug. 62/2 In June pin-men stormed the Roland Garros stadium on the first day of the French tennis championship, snapping up FFr50 pins that had been specially minted for the tournament.

2. A figure of a person drawn in short straight lines without appreciable breadth; a matchstick figure. Also figurative.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > matchstick drawing of figure

stick figure1903

stickman1914

pin man1934

matchstick man1951

1934 D. Thomas Let. 2 May in Sel. Lett. (1966) 114 And I have, too, a violent desire to draw pin-men.

1953 J. Masters Lotus & Wind i. 8 The engineer was little more than a pin man in the distance.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Feb. 129/3 The movement of the train..reduce what Rhoda sees to a scene of pin-men moving awkwardly and senselessly through an unwelcoming landscape.

2001 Financial Times (Nexis) 20 Sept. 4 Children have sent drawings... One depicts pin men falling down the side of the World Trade Center.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pin man
释义	pin mann. Brit. /ˈpɪn man/, U.S. /ˈpɪn ˌmæn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pin n.¹, man n.¹ Etymology: < pin n.¹ + man n.¹ 1. In early use: a man who sells pins. In later use: a man who collects, sells, or trades souvenir pins or badges. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things soaper?c1225 oilman1275 smear-monger1297 upholder1333 basket-seller?1518 broom-seller?1518 upholster1554 rod-woman1602 starchwoman1604 pin manc1680 colour seller1685 potato-woman1697 printseller1700 rag-seller1700 Greenwich barber1785 sandboy1821 iceman1834 umbrella man1851 fly-boy1861 snuff-boxera1871 pedlar1872 snake-boy1873 bric-a-brac man1876 tinwoman1884 resurrectionist1888 butch1891 paanwallah1955 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > needle- or pin-maker > [noun] needler1275 pinner1281 pinmaker1350 needle-maker1571 reed-maker1627 pin manc1680 c1680 Crys of London 36 in J. W. Ebsworth Bagford Ballads (1876) I. 116 Here's your old Pin Man, a coming agen. 1726 C. Ellison Most Pleasant Descr. Benwel Village 192 This Chair fill'd Tinman, And That did Pin-man, [etc.] 1791 J. Wolcot Rights of Kings xvi, in Wks. (1816) II. 206 Fast by the grocer's, or the chandler's shop, Or lace, or pinman, or the man of mop. 1878 J. Inglis Sport & Work iv. 34 The pinmen are busy sorting their pins. 1988 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Sept. d12 You can count on seeing the Mexican pin man; he's shown up at all the Olympic Games of recent years, wearing a sombrero, his red suit covered from top to bottom with pins. 1991 Economist 3 Aug. 62/2 In June pin-men stormed the Roland Garros stadium on the first day of the French tennis championship, snapping up FFr50 pins that had been specially minted for the tournament. 2. A figure of a person drawn in short straight lines without appreciable breadth; a matchstick figure. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > matchstick drawing of figure stick figure1903 stickman1914 pin man1934 matchstick man1951 1934 D. Thomas Let. 2 May in Sel. Lett. (1966) 114 And I have, too, a violent desire to draw pin-men. 1953 J. Masters Lotus & Wind i. 8 The engineer was little more than a pin man in the distance. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Feb. 129/3 The movement of the train..reduce what Rhoda sees to a scene of pin-men moving awkwardly and senselessly through an unwelcoming landscape. 2001 Financial Times (Nexis) 20 Sept. 4 Children have sent drawings... One depicts pin men falling down the side of the World Trade Center. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1680
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