See pin money in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for pin money meaning in English (4.1kB)
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "pin money (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Money",
"orig": "en:Money",
"parents": [
"Business",
"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section VI",
"text": "Damn you for a Son of a Bitch! Shall you wear such Things, and I want Pin-Money?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1886, George Gissing, chapter 27, in Demos: A Story of English Socialism",
"text": "[H]e practised economy in the matter of his wife's pin-money.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1911, David Graham Phillips, chapter 7, in The Conflict",
"text": "But these sums were but a small part of their income, were merely pin money for their wives and children.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An allowance of money given by a man to his wife or to other dependents for their personal, discretionary use."
],
"id": "en-pin_money-en-noun-lfWjIK91",
"links": [
[
"allowance",
"allowance"
],
[
"money",
"money"
],
[
"man",
"man#Noun"
],
[
"wife",
"wife"
],
[
"dependent",
"dependent"
],
[
"personal",
"personal#Adjective"
],
[
"discretionary",
"discretionary"
],
[
"use",
"use#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical) An allowance of money given by a man to his wife or to other dependents for their personal, discretionary use."
],
"tags": [
"historical",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "wife's allowance",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "jehelné"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "wife's allowance",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Nadelgeld"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "wife's allowance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "argid poagey"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "wife's allowance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "argid ullee"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "29 71",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 63",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 68",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Money",
"orig": "en:Money",
"parents": [
"Business",
"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A relatively small sum of cash kept in one's personal possession for routine expenses or incidental purchases; an amount of money which is not particularly significant."
],
"id": "en-pin_money-en-noun-ah1q6a17",
"links": [
[
"relatively",
"relatively"
],
[
"small",
"small"
],
[
"sum",
"sum#Noun"
],
[
"cash",
"cash#Noun"
],
[
"kept",
"keep#Verb"
],
[
"possession",
"possession"
],
[
"routine",
"routine#Adjective"
],
[
"expense",
"expense"
],
[
"incidental",
"incidental"
],
[
"purchases",
"purchase#Noun"
],
[
"amount",
"amount#Noun"
],
[
"significant",
"significant"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, dated) A relatively small sum of cash kept in one's personal possession for routine expenses or incidental purchases; an amount of money which is not particularly significant."
],
"tags": [
"dated",
"idiomatic",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɪnmʌni/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-au-pin money.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/En-au-pin_money.ogg/En-au-pin_money.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/En-au-pin_money.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"word": "pocket money"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"word": "spending money"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"word": "pin-money"
}
],
"word": "pin money"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English uncountable nouns",
"en:Money"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "pin money (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with historical senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section VI",
"text": "Damn you for a Son of a Bitch! Shall you wear such Things, and I want Pin-Money?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1886, George Gissing, chapter 27, in Demos: A Story of English Socialism",
"text": "[H]e practised economy in the matter of his wife's pin-money.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1911, David Graham Phillips, chapter 7, in The Conflict",
"text": "But these sums were but a small part of their income, were merely pin money for their wives and children.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An allowance of money given by a man to his wife or to other dependents for their personal, discretionary use."
],
"links": [
[
"allowance",
"allowance"
],
[
"money",
"money"
],
[
"man",
"man#Noun"
],
[
"wife",
"wife"
],
[
"dependent",
"dependent"
],
[
"personal",
"personal#Adjective"
],
[
"discretionary",
"discretionary"
],
[
"use",
"use#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical) An allowance of money given by a man to his wife or to other dependents for their personal, discretionary use."
],
"tags": [
"historical",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English idioms"
],
"glosses": [
"A relatively small sum of cash kept in one's personal possession for routine expenses or incidental purchases; an amount of money which is not particularly significant."
],
"links": [
[
"relatively",
"relatively"
],
[
"small",
"small"
],
[
"sum",
"sum#Noun"
],
[
"cash",
"cash#Noun"
],
[
"kept",
"keep#Verb"
],
[
"possession",
"possession"
],
[
"routine",
"routine#Adjective"
],
[
"expense",
"expense"
],
[
"incidental",
"incidental"
],
[
"purchases",
"purchase#Noun"
],
[
"amount",
"amount#Noun"
],
[
"significant",
"significant"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, dated) A relatively small sum of cash kept in one's personal possession for routine expenses or incidental purchases; an amount of money which is not particularly significant."
],
"tags": [
"dated",
"idiomatic",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɪnmʌni/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-au-pin money.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/En-au-pin_money.ogg/En-au-pin_money.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/En-au-pin_money.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "pocket money"
},
{
"word": "spending money"
},
{
"word": "pin-money"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "wife's allowance",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "jehelné"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "wife's allowance",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Nadelgeld"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "wife's allowance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "argid poagey"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "wife's allowance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "argid ullee"
}
],
"word": "pin money"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.