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pen-pal orig. U.S.|ˈpɛnpæl|
[f. pen n.2 + pal n.1]
= pen-friend. Hence penpalmanship, penpalship, the relationship existing between pen-pals.
1938Educational Method Nov. 83/1 Mary Jones of Portland, Maine, has just requested the Student Letter Exchange of Waseca, Minnesota, to supply her with the name of a ‘pen pal’ in Mexico City. Ibid., Since its inception in July, 1936, the Student Letter Exchange has provided hundreds of thousands of ‘pen pals’ around the world. 1941J. C. Furnas How Amer. Lives 272 Pen-pals are not the only piece of news for the writer in the Kriebel boys' mail. 196020th Cent. June 517 There are some rather elaborate plans for forming relationships with individual Alphas, on the lines of the children's pen palships in the twentieth-century newspapers. Ibid., You need to be young and so does your pen pal for this type of correspondence. 1962J. Kirkup tr. Brunner's Trouble in Brusada iii. 26 The girls..had written..to a school class in Zurich with which they regularly corresponded, and..their pen-pals would help them to bear the cost. 1966Guardian 9 June 8/1 The affair was carried on entirely by correspondence... Their penpalmanship had already begun. 1967Boston Herald 1 Apr. 22/6 The children at the Dedham Country Day School are pen pals of children in Dedham, England. They've exchanged Christmas presents and a few have even visited families over there. 1972M. Mead Blackberry Winter vii. 81, I also had two pen pals whose names I got through St. Nicholas Magazine. 1972C. Short Naked Skier xxii. 123 Maybe we could be pen-pals... I'll send you a postcard from New York. 1974‘P. B. Yuill’ Hazell plays Solomon ii. 25 ‘Why pay top money for information and a photograph of a child whose surname they don't know?’ ‘Perhaps they want a penpal?’ |