"spinniken" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: spinnikens [plural]
Etymology: From spinning ken, alluding to one form of work done there. Head templates: {{en-noun}} spinniken (plural spinnikens)
  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A workhouse. Tags: UK, obsolete, slang
    Sense id: en-spinniken-en-noun-ahH7uoOW Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "etymology_text": "From spinning ken, alluding to one form of work done there.",
  "forms": [
    {
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        "plural"
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    }
  ],
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        },
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 184:",
          "text": "[…] they all three compared notes on the several workhouses they had been at. One inclined to think that the workhouses in South Wales were the best. Another thought the Yorkshire 'spinnikens' were.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A workhouse."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "workhouse",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, obsolete, slang) A workhouse."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spinniken"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From spinning ken, alluding to one form of work done there.",
  "forms": [
    {
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    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "spinniken (plural spinnikens)",
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    }
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 184:",
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        }
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        "A workhouse."
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        "(UK, obsolete, slang) A workhouse."
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