pin money

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

  2. 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, VI:

  3. Damn you for a Son of a Bitch! Shall you wear such Things, and I want Pin-Mooney?
  4. 1813, (w), Pride and Prejudice, ch. 59:

  5. 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!
  6. 1886, w:George Gissing|George Gissing, Demos: A Story of English Socialism, ch. 27:

  7. He practised economy in the matter of his wife's pin-money.
  8. 1911, w:David Graham Phillips|David Graham Phillips, The Conflict, ch. 7:

  9. But these sums were but a small part of their income, were merely pin money for their wives and children.
  10. 1921, w:Baroness Emmuska Orczy|Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Castles in the Air, ch. 3:

  11. 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.
  12. puhekieltä 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. (defdate)

  13. 1892, w:Mark Twain|Mark Twain, The American Claimant, ch. 3:

  14. "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?"
  15. 1912, w:O. Henry|O. Henry, "A Ruler of Men" in Rolling Stones:

  16. "Where is Reddy McGill now?" . . .
    "Putting up windmills in Arizona. For pin money to buy etceteras with."
  17. 1917, w:Christopher Morley|Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels, ch. 3:

  18. "The 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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