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Synonymer

Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈpɪnmʌni/

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (now historical) An allowance of money given by a man to his wife or to other dependents for their personal, discretionary use.
  2. (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.

Exempel

  • Damn you for a Son of a Bitch! Shall you wear such Things, and I want Pin-Mooney?
  • Lord bless me! only think! dear me! Mr. Darcy! . . . Oh! my sweetest Lizzy! how rich and how great you will be! What pin-money, what jewels, what carriages you will have!
  • [H]e practised economy in the matter of his wife's pin-money.
  • But these sums were but a small part of their income, were merely pin money for their wives and children.
  • Certain it is that out of the lavish pin-money which her father gave her as a free gift from time to time, she only doled out a meagre allowance to her husband.
  • "Money—yes; pin money: a couple of hundred thousand, perhaps. Not more."
  • Washington's eyes blazed.
  • "A couple of hundred thousand dollars! do you call that pin money?"
  • "Where is Reddy McGill now?" . ..
  • "Putting up windmills in Arizona. For pin money to buy etceteras with."
  • "[T]he housekeeping accounts fall to me. I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston."

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