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单词 pushpin
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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.
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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. 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.
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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
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.
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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).
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