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Definition: Pin Money |
Pin MoneyNoun1. Cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Pin Money A lady's allowance of money for her own personal expenditure. Long after the invention of pins, in the fourteenth century, the maker was allowed to sell them in open shop only on January 1st and 2nd. It was then that the court ladies and city dames flocked to the depôts to buy them, having been first provided with money by their husbands. When pins became cheap and common, the ladies spent their allowances on other fancies, but the term pin money remained in vogue. It is quite an error to suppose that pins were invented in the reign of Francois I., and introduced into England by Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII. In 1347, just 200 years before the death of Francois, 12,000 pins were delivered from the royal wardrobe for the use of the Princess Joan, and in 1400 (more than a century before Francois ascended the throne) the Duchess of Orleans purchased of Jehan le Breconnier, espirglier, of Paris, several thousand long and short pins, besides 500 de la facon d' Angleterre. So that pins were not only manufactured in England, but were of high repute even in the reign of Henry IV. of England (1399-1413). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | PIN MONEY. An allowance settled on a married woman for her pocket expences. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Pin MoneySynonyms: pocket money (n), spending money (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Money | Double eagle, eagle; Federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency; Federal Reserve Note, United States Note, silver certificate, gold certificate; long bit, short bit; moss, nickel, pile, pin money, quarter, red cent, roanoke, rock; seawan, seawant; thousand dollars, grand. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pin money | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pin money"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | parë xhepi (pocket money), para të vogla. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مصاريف الجيب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пари за дребни разходи, джобни пари (allowance, beer money, pocket money, spending money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | argent de poche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χρήματα γι' ατομικά μικροέξοδα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "וצאות קט ות (petty cash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zsebpénz nõé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | uang saku (pocket money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | denaro per spese superflue. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 化粧料 (lady's pin money), 化粧代 (cosmetics expense, lady's pin money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | けしょうりょう (lady's pin money), けしょう い (cosmetics expense, dresser, dressing table, lady's pin money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | argid ullee (cash, pocket money, ready money, small change), argid poagey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inpay oneymay dinheiro extra. (various references) mãrunţiş (broken money, change, inestimable, small change, trifles), bani de coşniţã, bani de buzunar (pocket money, spending money). (various references) деньги на мелкие расходы (pin-money, pocket money). (various references) džeparac (allowance, pocket money). (various references) dinero para gastos menudos. (various references) cep harçlığı (pocket money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Pin Money" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pinmoney. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-n-o-p-y" | |
-2 letters: eponym, impone, pinyon. | |
-3 letters: meiny, minny, money, monie, mopey, myope, nomen, opine, penni, penny, peony, piney, pinny, pinon. | |
-4 letters: meno, mien, mine, mony, mope, mopy, neon, nine, nome, none, nope, omen, open, pein, peon, pine, piny, pion, poem, pome, pone, pony, pyin, yipe, yoni. | |
-5 letters: eon, imp, inn, ion, men, mon, mop, nim, nip. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-n-o-p-y" | |
+3 letters: aminopyrine, prominently. | |
+4 letters: aminopyrines, incompetency, intercompany, omnipotently, pancreozymin, predominancy. | |
+5 letters: aminophylline, incompetently, nincompoopery, pancreozymins, predominantly, spectinomycin. | |
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