pushpinn.

Brit.

/ˈpʊʃpɪn/, U.S.

/ˈpʊʃˌpɪn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: push v., pin n.¹, push- comb. form.

Etymology: In sense 1 < push v. + pin n.¹; compare slightly earlier put-pin n. In sense 2 independently < push- comb. form + pin n.¹

a. A children's game in which each player pushes or propels a pin with the object of crossing that of another player. Now rare and historical.In quot. 1623 used as a euphemism for sexual intercourse.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others

buckle-pit1532

marrowbone1533

put-pin?1577

primus secundus1584

fox in the hole1585

haltering of Hick's mare1585

muss1591

pushpin1598

Jack-in-the-box1600

a penny in the forehead1602

buckerels1649

bumdockdousse1653

peck-point1653

toro1660

wheelbarrow1740

thread-needle1751

thrush-a-thrush1766

runaway ring?1790

Gregory1801

pick-point1801

fighting cocks1807

runaway knock1813

tit-tat-toe1818

French and English1820

honeypots1821

roly-poly1821

tickle-tail1821

pottle1822

King of Cantland1825

tip-top-castle1834

tile1837

statue1839

chip stone1843

hen and chickens1843

king of the castle1843

King Caesar1849

rap-jacket1870

old witch1881

tick-tack-toe1884

twos and threes1896

last across (the road)1904

step1909

king of the hill1928

Pooh-sticks1928

trick or treat1928

stare-you-out1932

king of the mountain1933

dab cricket1938

Urkey1938

trick-or-treating1941

seven-up1950

squashed tomato1959

slot-racing1965

Pog1993

knights-

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 167 To see..Nestor play at push-pin with the boyes, And Crittick Tymon laugh at idle toyes.

1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine iii. ii. sig. G3 And though I made her often Curuet and caper, she would neuer tell, Who play'd at push-pin with her.

1645 G. Wither Vox Pacifica 60 Conditions made By Boyes, or Girles, at Push-pin, or at Cat.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. B8 Love and my selfe (beleeve me) on a day At childish Push-pin (for our sport) did play: I put, he pusht, and heedless of my skin, Love prickt my finger with a golden pin.

1709 ‘B. Slush’ Navy Royal 37 It is but now and then a Man we meet with..that prefers the Childish Game of Push-pin beyond a Diadem.

1751 S. Osborn Let. 3 Sept. in D. Pope At 12 Mr Byng was Shot (1962) iii. 29 If people can be happy at pushpin, 'tis as entertaining to them as the most refind [sic] satisfaction to those of a more exalted genius.

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Pushpin, a child's play in which pins are pushed with an endeavour to cross them.

1825 J. Bentham Rationale Reward 206 Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry.

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. ix. 102 They were..playing at push-pin, or shepherd's chess, or basset; or some trivial game of that sort.

1906 Fortn. Rev. Aug. 350 It was poetry and not push-pin that comforted Mill when he fell into despondency.

1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games 7 Shakespeare himself mentions..‘Push-pin’ (a game now played with pen-nibs).

†b. Used allusively with reference to any activity considered trivial or childish. Frequently attributive or as adj. Obsolete.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial

gnatc1000

ball play?c1225

smalla1250

triflec1290

fly1297

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motec1390

mitec1400

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trufferyc1429

toyc1450

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fly-winga1500

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boys' play1538

nugament1543

knack?1544

fable1552

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mouse1584

molehill1590

coot1594

scoff1594

nidgery1611

pin matter1611

triviality1611

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fiddlesticka1625

apex1625

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rushlight1635

notchet1637

peppercorn1638

petty John1640

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fool-fangle1647

nonny-no1652

crepundian1655

fly-biting1659

pushpin1660

whinny-whanny1673

whiffle1680

straw1692

two and a plack1692

fiddle1695

trivial1715

barley-strawa1721

nothingism1742

curse1763

nihility1765

minutia1782

bee's knee1797

minutiae1797

niff-naff1808

playwork1824

floccinaucity1829

trivialism1830

chicken feed1834

nonsensical1842

meemaw1862

infinitesimality1867

pinfall1868

fidfad1875

flummadiddle1882

quantité négligeable1885

quotidian1902

pipsqueak1905

hickey1909

piddle1910

cream puff1920

squat1934

administrivia1937

chickenshit1938

cream puff1938

diddly-squat1963

non-issue1965

Tinkertoy1972

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > childish

pushpin1660

puerilea1680

1660 W. Sprigg Royal & Happy Poverty 89 Is it not then to play at small game a meer childish push-pin sport to contend for it?

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 15 Our Authors Divinity might have gone to Push-Pin with the Bishop.

1681 Heraclitus Ridens 25 Oct. 1/1 Come, let's hear a little of his Pushpin Labours.

1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 36 A meer childrens play and a worse than Push-pin diversion.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 74 You are grown almost a Man now, and you shall not be always at play at Push pin, I am got into better Business I assure you, and you shall come into it too.

1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 547 Every effort ends in push-pin play.

1788 W. Cowper Let. 21 Feb. (1982) III. 110 Every thing that we do is in reality important, though half that we do seems to be push-pin.

1820 Examiner No. 623. 191/2 This is the push-pin of literary reading.

1852 U.S. Democratic Rev. May 473/1 The coolness, the effrontery with which the old fogy proprietors of our party deliberately sit down and play at push-pin on paper with these men is laughable, were it not to them insulting.

2. Chiefly North American. A tack or drawing pin with a head which is easy to grasp, typically used to affix pictures to noticeboards, or to mark points on a map.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg

preenOE

prickOE

kevel1251

pina1275

prag1354

key1434

peg1440

tholec1440

thole-pinc1440

lock1514

cotterel1570

pivot1730

pinning1742

steady pin1791

gib1795

needle1811

lockdown1832

cotter1842

peglet1890

pushpin1903

1903 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Dec. 49 (advt.) The Moore Push-Pin. Made of glass and steel. For fastening up small pictures, calendars, posters, photo-films, etc. Can be inserted in wood or plaster without disfiguring.

1919 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 28 Apr. 7/3 (advt.) The new style picture hooks—The Moore Push Pin and The Anchor Picture Hook.

1942 Amer. Cinematographer Apr. 188/3 A story board..on which the story sketches are pinned in rows with aluminium push-pins.

1974 C. C. Woodard Cable Television vi. 138 A pushpin is stuck in the map at that location; and that pushpin's number is written in the Work Requested section.

1998 D. Danvers Circuit of Heaven 328 The earth poster had been torn from the wall, a corner still dangling from a pushpin.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pushpin
释义	pushpinn. Brit. /ˈpʊʃpɪn/, U.S. /ˈpʊʃˌpɪn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: push v., pin n.¹, push- comb. form. Etymology: In sense 1 < push v. + pin n.¹; compare slightly earlier put-pin n. In sense 2 independently < push- comb. form + pin n.¹ 1. a. A children's game in which each player pushes or propels a pin with the object of crossing that of another player. Now rare and historical.In quot. 1623 used as a euphemism for sexual intercourse. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others buckle-pit1532 marrowbone1533 put-pin?1577 primus secundus1584 fox in the hole1585 haltering of Hick's mare1585 muss1591 pushpin1598 Jack-in-the-box1600 a penny in the forehead1602 buckerels1649 bumdockdousse1653 peck-point1653 toro1660 wheelbarrow1740 thread-needle1751 thrush-a-thrush1766 runaway ring?1790 Gregory1801 pick-point1801 fighting cocks1807 runaway knock1813 tit-tat-toe1818 French and English1820 honeypots1821 roly-poly1821 tickle-tail1821 pottle1822 King of Cantland1825 tip-top-castle1834 tile1837 statue1839 chip stone1843 hen and chickens1843 king of the castle1843 King Caesar1849 rap-jacket1870 old witch1881 tick-tack-toe1884 twos and threes1896 last across (the road)1904 step1909 king of the hill1928 Pooh-sticks1928 trick or treat1928 stare-you-out1932 king of the mountain1933 dab cricket1938 Urkey1938 trick-or-treating1941 seven-up1950 squashed tomato1959 slot-racing1965 Pog1993 knights- 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 167 To see..Nestor play at push-pin with the boyes, And Crittick Tymon laugh at idle toyes. View more context for this quotation 1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine iii. ii. sig. G3 And though I made her often Curuet and caper, she would neuer tell, Who play'd at push-pin with her. 1645 G. Wither Vox Pacifica 60 Conditions made By Boyes, or Girles, at Push-pin, or at Cat. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. B8 Love and my selfe (beleeve me) on a day At childish Push-pin (for our sport) did play: I put, he pusht, and heedless of my skin, Love prickt my finger with a golden pin. 1709 ‘B. Slush’ Navy Royal 37 It is but now and then a Man we meet with..that prefers the Childish Game of Push-pin beyond a Diadem. 1751 S. Osborn Let. 3 Sept. in D. Pope At 12 Mr Byng was Shot (1962) iii. 29 If people can be happy at pushpin, 'tis as entertaining to them as the most refind [sic] satisfaction to those of a more exalted genius. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Pushpin, a child's play in which pins are pushed with an endeavour to cross them. 1825 J. Bentham Rationale Reward 206 Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. ix. 102 They were..playing at push-pin, or shepherd's chess, or basset; or some trivial game of that sort. 1906 Fortn. Rev. Aug. 350 It was poetry and not push-pin that comforted Mill when he fell into despondency. 1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games 7 Shakespeare himself mentions..‘Push-pin’ (a game now played with pen-nibs). †b. Used allusively with reference to any activity considered trivial or childish. Frequently attributive or as adj. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial gnatc1000 ball play?c1225 smalla1250 triflec1290 fly1297 child's gamec1380 motec1390 mitec1400 child's playc1405 trufferyc1429 toyc1450 curiosity1474 fly-winga1500 neither mass nor matins1528 boys' play1538 nugament1543 knack?1544 fable1552 nincety-fincety1566 mouse1584 molehill1590 coot1594 scoff1594 nidgery1611 pin matter1611 triviality1611 minuity1612 feathera1616 fillip1621 rattle1622 fiddlesticka1625 apex1625 rush candle1628 punctilio1631 rushlight1635 notchet1637 peppercorn1638 petty John1640 emptiness1646 fool-fangle1647 nonny-no1652 crepundian1655 fly-biting1659 pushpin1660 whinny-whanny1673 whiffle1680 straw1692 two and a plack1692 fiddle1695 trivial1715 barley-strawa1721 nothingism1742 curse1763 nihility1765 minutia1782 bee's knee1797 minutiae1797 niff-naff1808 playwork1824 floccinaucity1829 trivialism1830 chicken feed1834 nonsensical1842 meemaw1862 infinitesimality1867 pinfall1868 fidfad1875 flummadiddle1882 quantité négligeable1885 quotidian1902 pipsqueak1905 hickey1909 piddle1910 cream puff1920 squat1934 administrivia1937 chickenshit1938 cream puff1938 diddly-squat1963 non-issue1965 Tinkertoy1972 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > childish pushpin1660 puerilea1680 1660 W. Sprigg Royal & Happy Poverty 89 Is it not then to play at small game a meer childish push-pin sport to contend for it? 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 15 Our Authors Divinity might have gone to Push-Pin with the Bishop. 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 25 Oct. 1/1 Come, let's hear a little of his Pushpin Labours. 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 36 A meer childrens play and a worse than Push-pin diversion. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 74 You are grown almost a Man now, and you shall not be always at play at Push pin, I am got into better Business I assure you, and you shall come into it too. 1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 547 Every effort ends in push-pin play. 1788 W. Cowper Let. 21 Feb. (1982) III. 110 Every thing that we do is in reality important, though half that we do seems to be push-pin. 1820 Examiner No. 623. 191/2 This is the push-pin of literary reading. 1852 U.S. Democratic Rev. May 473/1 The coolness, the effrontery with which the old fogy proprietors of our party deliberately sit down and play at push-pin on paper with these men is laughable, were it not to them insulting. 2. Chiefly North American. A tack or drawing pin with a head which is easy to grasp, typically used to affix pictures to noticeboards, or to mark points on a map. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg preenOE prickOE kevel1251 pina1275 prag1354 key1434 peg1440 tholec1440 thole-pinc1440 lock1514 cotterel1570 pivot1730 pinning1742 steady pin1791 gib1795 needle1811 lockdown1832 cotter1842 peglet1890 pushpin1903 1903 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Dec. 49 (advt.) The Moore Push-Pin. Made of glass and steel. For fastening up small pictures, calendars, posters, photo-films, etc. Can be inserted in wood or plaster without disfiguring. 1919 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 28 Apr. 7/3 (advt.) The new style picture hooks—The Moore Push Pin and The Anchor Picture Hook. 1942 Amer. Cinematographer Apr. 188/3 A story board..on which the story sketches are pinned in rows with aluminium push-pins. 1974 C. C. Woodard Cable Television vi. 138 A pushpin is stuck in the map at that location; and that pushpin's number is written in the Work Requested section. 1998 D. Danvers Circuit of Heaven 328 The earth poster had been torn from the wall, a corner still dangling from a pushpin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598
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