pinnywinkles
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɪnɪˌwɪŋkl̩s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɪniˌwɪŋk(ə)ls/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈpɪnɪˌwɪŋkl̩s/
- Hyphenation: pin‧ny‧win‧kles
Noun
[edit]pinnywinkles pl (plural only)
- Alternative form of pilliwinks
- 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume II (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 230:
- They prick us and they pine us, and they pit us on the pinnywinkles for witches; [...]