ninepinsn.

Brit.

/ˈnʌɪnpɪnz/, U.S.

/ˈnaɪnˌpɪnz/

Forms: 1500s–1600s ninepinnes, 1500s– ninepins; also (in attributive use) 1600s– ninepin.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nine n., pin n.¹

Etymology: < nine n. + the plural of pin n.¹

I. In plural form. Usually with singular agreement.

1. A game in which nine skittles are set up to be knocked down by a ball or bowl. Also figurative. Cf. kayles n., skittle n. 1a, 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun]

kaylesc1325

skaylesa1566

ninepins1580

pin1580

skittles1634

kittle-pins1649

skayle-pins1656

nine pegs1675

four corners1730

Dutch pins1801

Dutch rubbers1801

long bowling1801

ten-pins1807

squails1847

ten-pin bowling1934

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Quilles, as iouër aux quilles, to play at nine pins.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Cione, a peg or pin, to play at nine pinnes withall.

1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie iv. sig. H1 Thy dry bones can reach at nothing now, but gords or ninepinnes.

1647 H. Peacham Worth of Peny 31 The most ordinary recreations of the Countrey are football, skales or nine pins, shooting at butts [etc.].

1663 S. Pepys Diary 27 May (1971) IV. 160 Afterward to nine-pins..Creed and I playing against my Lord and Cooke.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit iv. 9 You Sot,..you..spend your Time at Billiards, Nine-pins or Puppet-shows.

1734–5 B. Franklin in Pennsylvania Gaz. 11 Feb. Is the Knowledge of Push-pin, or of the Game at Ninepins..sufficient to constitute the Character of a Man of Sense?

1774 Westm. Mag. 2 315 Swains appeared in fancy dresses, amusing themselves at the game of Ninepins.

1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 421 A little boy was playing ninepins on the streets of Mentz.

1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 511 Skittles, nine pins, and Dutch pins, are modifications of the same game.

1886 B. P. Poore Perley's Reminisc. II. 35 He rolled several games of ninepins with the pupils.

1938 E. Goudge Towers in Mist (1998) vi. 129 It was only ninepins, the pins being aimed at with a stick, but an elaborate system of betting had been evolved in connection with it.

1959 Encounter 12 21 That's how the game is. I tell you, it's not all ninepins.

1989 New Yorker 23 Jan. 26/2 The Dutch brought ninepins to New York.

II. As a count noun. Usually in plural.

a. Each of the pins with which this game is played.Often in similative phrases, as the type of a thing or group of things sent tumbling over.In quot. 1925, perhaps with a pun on pin n.¹ Phrases 2a(b).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > pin(s)

kaylesc1325

kayle-pin1621

ninepins1664

skittle1680

pin1694

kittles1697

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 36 As when Merchants break, orethrown Like Nine-pins, they strike others down.

1691 J. Wilson Belphegor iv. iv 'Tis a wonder, no more follow him: for it is often with Merchants, as Nine-Pins.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 165 Some of these Trees..being big-bellied like Nine-pins.

1710 E. Ward Vulgus Britannicus: 3rd Pt. ix. 99 They..Range Moorfields sometimes to find, A set of Ninepins to their mind.

1737 J. Breval Rape of Helen 43 The Troops tumbled over one another, like Ninepins.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xxxix. 274 I saw him sometimes jumping from rock to rock, sometimes rolling down a declivity of snow like a ninepin.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 60 The bowl that beats the greater number down, Of tottering nine-pins.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. x. 253 When his holiness rolled on the green like a king of the nine-pins.

1892 V. Fane Poems 127 The bats, and the balls, and the ninepins..Ah, that charger tall Knows who play'd with them all.

1925 C. Wells Six Years in Malay Jungle xii. 180 The R.G.A. men were old soldiers and as smart as ninepins.

1990 P. L. Mariani Salvage Operations 145 No gawky flatfoot wobblers now, the massive emperor penguins sleek as ninepins hurtled past me.

b. colloquial. to go down (also fall, etc.) like ninepins: to succumb with little resistance in the face of attack, misfortune, etc. Also to knock down like ninepins: to overcome (a thing or person) effortlessly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > offer no resistance [verb (intransitive)]

to turn the other cheek1529

to go down like ninepins1791

to take (a beating, defeat, etc.) lying down1888

to take (something) sitting down1899

1791 J. Fennell Lindor & Clara v. i. 99 O lud! O lud! there, there, there, now they are all going to it, to knock down men like ninepins.

1840 F. M. Trollope Life & Adventures Michael Armstrong xi. 121 Such men as Sharpton are not to be knocked down like ninepins.

1873 Galaxy Oct. 560 A row of houses going down like ninepins is more national than creditable.

1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xxiv. 214 Judges, keepers of gambling houses, financiers and minor politicians fell like nine pins.

1989 G. Mehta Raj xxi. 153 I suppose it is no surprise that the men are going down like ninepins to the influenza.

2000 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 1 Apr. 8/2 Post Offices and sub-offices have been going down like ninepins for years.

†c. Applied to children. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use for humorous effect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [noun]

wenchelc890

childeOE

littleOE

littlingOE

hired-childc1275

smalla1300

brolla1325

innocentc1325

chickc1330

congeonc1330

impc1380

faunt1382

young onec1384

scionc1390

weea1400

birdc1405

chickenc1440

enfaunta1475

small boyc1475

whelp1483

burden1490

little one1509

brat?a1513

younkerkin1528

kitling1541

urchin1556

loneling1579

breed1586

budling1587

pledge?1587

ragazzo1591

simplicity1592

bantling1593

tadpole1594

two-year-old1594

bratcheta1600

lambkin1600

younker1601

dandling1611

buda1616

eyas-musketa1616

dovelinga1618

whelplinga1618

puppet1623

butter printa1625

chit1625

piggy1625

ninnyc1626

youngster1633

fairya1635

lap-child1655

chitterling1675

squeaker1676

cherub1680

kid1690

wean1692

kinchin1699

getlingc1700

totum17..

charity-child1723

small girl1734

poult1739

elfin1748

piggy-wiggy1766

piccaninny1774

suck-thumb18..

teeny1802

olive1803

sprout1813

stumpie1820

sexennarian1821

totty1822

toddle1825

toddles1828

poppet1830

brancher1833

toad1836

toddler1837

ankle-biter1840

yarkera1842

twopenny1844

weeny1844

tottykins1849

toddlekins1852

brattock1858

nipper1859

sprat1860

ninepins1862

angelet1868

tenas man1870

tad1877

tacker1885

chavvy1886

joey1887

toddleskin1890

thumb-sucker1891

littlie1893

peewee1894

tyke1894

che-ild1896

kiddo1896

mother's bairn1896

childling1903

kipper1905

pick1905

small1907

God forbid1909

preadolescent1909

subadolescent1914

toto1914

snookums1919

tweenie1919

problem child1920

squirt1924

trottie1924

tiddler1927

subteen1929

perisher1935

poopsie1937

pre-schooler1937

pre-teen1938

pre-teener1940

juvie1941

sprog1944

pikkie1945

subteenager1947

pre-teenager1948

pint-size1954

saucepan lid1960

rug rat1964

smallie1984

bosom-child-

1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings II. xix. 289 Little ninepins, would you like to get three-pence?

Compounds

C1. With first element in singular form.

ninepin alley n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > alley

ball-alley1440

alley1541

bowling-alley1555

bowl-alley1628

ninepin yard1665

ninepin alley1682

ten-pin alley1835

lane1960

1682 Heraclitus Ridens 27 June 2/1 A Detachment of sorry Spungers from the Suburb Shovel-board Tables and Nine-pin Alleys.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 28 Oct. 233 An Alehouse..,with a Ninepin Alley.

1839 R. Dawes Nix's Mate II. xv. 124 There were two nine-pin alleys, and several smooth planks for dancing.

1937 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 23 484 Nine-pin alleys, gaming tables, and coffee houses were common enough to give the law makers and puritan minded something to worry about.

† ninepin yard n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > alley

ball-alley1440

alley1541

bowling-alley1555

bowl-alley1628

ninepin yard1665

ninepin alley1682

ten-pin alley1835

lane1960

1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. sig. H5^v There was not a Billiard-Table, Boards-End, and Nine-Pin-yard, that I did not daily visit.

1709 London Gaz. No. 4525/3 Bowling-Greens, and Nine-pin Yards.

† ninepin high adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1710 Brit. Apollo 10–13 Feb. Little dirty Brats scarce Nine-pin high.

1731 E. Cooke Hist. Col. Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion in Maryland Muse (ed. 3) i. 3/2 Wrapt in their little God of Strife, Who was (to draw him to the Life) From Head to Foot scarce Nine-pin high, Nor half so thick as Magogg's Thigh.

C2.

ninepin block n. Nautical (now historical) a block shaped like a ninepin.

ΚΠ

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 156 Nine-pin-blocks, the shells..resemble the shape of a nine-pin... They are used to lead the running ropes in a horizontal direction.

1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 116 Ninepin Block, a block in the form of a ninepin, used for a fair leader in the rail.

1943 Mariner's Mirror 29 181 The following ropes were belayed at the bitts.., the larger ones to the bitt heads or arms, and the smaller to belaying pins in the bitt rails, all first passing through either a sheave in the bitts or a ninepin block.

† ninepin play n. Obsolete rare a game of ninepins.

ΚΠ

?1716 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1873) II. 407 Nine pin play in Temple street.

Derivatives

† ninepin-like adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1704 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1547 The Nine-pin like Particles.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ninepins
释义	ninepinsn. Brit. /ˈnʌɪnpɪnz/, U.S. /ˈnaɪnˌpɪnz/ Forms: 1500s–1600s ninepinnes, 1500s– ninepins; also (in attributive use) 1600s– ninepin. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nine n., pin n.¹ Etymology: < nine n. + the plural of pin n.¹ I. In plural form. Usually with singular agreement. 1. A game in which nine skittles are set up to be knocked down by a ball or bowl. Also figurative. Cf. kayles n., skittle n. 1a, 1b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] kaylesc1325 skaylesa1566 ninepins1580 pin1580 skittles1634 kittle-pins1649 skayle-pins1656 nine pegs1675 four corners1730 Dutch pins1801 Dutch rubbers1801 long bowling1801 ten-pins1807 squails1847 ten-pin bowling1934 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Quilles, as iouër aux quilles, to play at nine pins. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Cione, a peg or pin, to play at nine pinnes withall. 1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie iv. sig. H1 Thy dry bones can reach at nothing now, but gords or ninepinnes. 1647 H. Peacham Worth of Peny 31 The most ordinary recreations of the Countrey are football, skales or nine pins, shooting at butts [etc.]. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 27 May (1971) IV. 160 Afterward to nine-pins..Creed and I playing against my Lord and Cooke. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit iv. 9 You Sot,..you..spend your Time at Billiards, Nine-pins or Puppet-shows. 1734–5 B. Franklin in Pennsylvania Gaz. 11 Feb. Is the Knowledge of Push-pin, or of the Game at Ninepins..sufficient to constitute the Character of a Man of Sense? 1774 Westm. Mag. 2 315 Swains appeared in fancy dresses, amusing themselves at the game of Ninepins. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 421 A little boy was playing ninepins on the streets of Mentz. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 511 Skittles, nine pins, and Dutch pins, are modifications of the same game. 1886 B. P. Poore Perley's Reminisc. II. 35 He rolled several games of ninepins with the pupils. 1938 E. Goudge Towers in Mist (1998) vi. 129 It was only ninepins, the pins being aimed at with a stick, but an elaborate system of betting had been evolved in connection with it. 1959 Encounter 12 21 That's how the game is. I tell you, it's not all ninepins. 1989 New Yorker 23 Jan. 26/2 The Dutch brought ninepins to New York. II. As a count noun. Usually in plural. 2. a. Each of the pins with which this game is played.Often in similative phrases, as the type of a thing or group of things sent tumbling over.In quot. 1925, perhaps with a pun on pin n.¹ Phrases 2a(b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > pin(s) kaylesc1325 kayle-pin1621 ninepins1664 skittle1680 pin1694 kittles1697 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 36 As when Merchants break, orethrown Like Nine-pins, they strike others down. 1691 J. Wilson Belphegor iv. iv 'Tis a wonder, no more follow him: for it is often with Merchants, as Nine-Pins. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 165 Some of these Trees..being big-bellied like Nine-pins. 1710 E. Ward Vulgus Britannicus: 3rd Pt. ix. 99 They..Range Moorfields sometimes to find, A set of Ninepins to their mind. 1737 J. Breval Rape of Helen 43 The Troops tumbled over one another, like Ninepins. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xxxix. 274 I saw him sometimes jumping from rock to rock, sometimes rolling down a declivity of snow like a ninepin. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 60 The bowl that beats the greater number down, Of tottering nine-pins. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. x. 253 When his holiness rolled on the green like a king of the nine-pins. 1892 V. Fane Poems 127 The bats, and the balls, and the ninepins..Ah, that charger tall Knows who play'd with them all. 1925 C. Wells Six Years in Malay Jungle xii. 180 The R.G.A. men were old soldiers and as smart as ninepins. 1990 P. L. Mariani Salvage Operations 145 No gawky flatfoot wobblers now, the massive emperor penguins sleek as ninepins hurtled past me. b. colloquial. to go down (also fall, etc.) like ninepins: to succumb with little resistance in the face of attack, misfortune, etc. Also to knock down like ninepins: to overcome (a thing or person) effortlessly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > offer no resistance [verb (intransitive)] to turn the other cheek1529 to go down like ninepins1791 to take (a beating, defeat, etc.) lying down1888 to take (something) sitting down1899 1791 J. Fennell Lindor & Clara v. i. 99 O lud! O lud! there, there, there, now they are all going to it, to knock down men like ninepins. 1840 F. M. Trollope Life & Adventures Michael Armstrong xi. 121 Such men as Sharpton are not to be knocked down like ninepins. 1873 Galaxy Oct. 560 A row of houses going down like ninepins is more national than creditable. 1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xxiv. 214 Judges, keepers of gambling houses, financiers and minor politicians fell like nine pins. 1989 G. Mehta Raj xxi. 153 I suppose it is no surprise that the men are going down like ninepins to the influenza. 2000 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 1 Apr. 8/2 Post Offices and sub-offices have been going down like ninepins for years. †c. Applied to children. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use for humorous effect. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] wenchelc890 childeOE littleOE littlingOE hired-childc1275 smalla1300 brolla1325 innocentc1325 chickc1330 congeonc1330 impc1380 faunt1382 young onec1384 scionc1390 weea1400 birdc1405 chickenc1440 enfaunta1475 small boyc1475 whelp1483 burden1490 little one1509 brat?a1513 younkerkin1528 kitling1541 urchin1556 loneling1579 breed1586 budling1587 pledge?1587 ragazzo1591 simplicity1592 bantling1593 tadpole1594 two-year-old1594 bratcheta1600 lambkin1600 younker1601 dandling1611 buda1616 eyas-musketa1616 dovelinga1618 whelplinga1618 puppet1623 butter printa1625 chit1625 piggy1625 ninnyc1626 youngster1633 fairya1635 lap-child1655 chitterling1675 squeaker1676 cherub1680 kid1690 wean1692 kinchin1699 getlingc1700 totum17.. charity-child1723 small girl1734 poult1739 elfin1748 piggy-wiggy1766 piccaninny1774 suck-thumb18.. teeny1802 olive1803 sprout1813 stumpie1820 sexennarian1821 totty1822 toddle1825 toddles1828 poppet1830 brancher1833 toad1836 toddler1837 ankle-biter1840 yarkera1842 twopenny1844 weeny1844 tottykins1849 toddlekins1852 brattock1858 nipper1859 sprat1860 ninepins1862 angelet1868 tenas man1870 tad1877 tacker1885 chavvy1886 joey1887 toddleskin1890 thumb-sucker1891 littlie1893 peewee1894 tyke1894 che-ild1896 kiddo1896 mother's bairn1896 childling1903 kipper1905 pick1905 small1907 God forbid1909 preadolescent1909 subadolescent1914 toto1914 snookums1919 tweenie1919 problem child1920 squirt1924 trottie1924 tiddler1927 subteen1929 perisher1935 poopsie1937 pre-schooler1937 pre-teen1938 pre-teener1940 juvie1941 sprog1944 pikkie1945 subteenager1947 pre-teenager1948 pint-size1954 saucepan lid1960 rug rat1964 smallie1984 bosom-child- 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings II. xix. 289 Little ninepins, would you like to get three-pence? Compounds C1. With first element in singular form. a. ninepin alley n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > alley ball-alley1440 alley1541 bowling-alley1555 bowl-alley1628 ninepin yard1665 ninepin alley1682 ten-pin alley1835 lane1960 1682 Heraclitus Ridens 27 June 2/1 A Detachment of sorry Spungers from the Suburb Shovel-board Tables and Nine-pin Alleys. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 28 Oct. 233 An Alehouse..,with a Ninepin Alley. 1839 R. Dawes Nix's Mate II. xv. 124 There were two nine-pin alleys, and several smooth planks for dancing. 1937 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 23 484 Nine-pin alleys, gaming tables, and coffee houses were common enough to give the law makers and puritan minded something to worry about. † ninepin yard n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > alley ball-alley1440 alley1541 bowling-alley1555 bowl-alley1628 ninepin yard1665 ninepin alley1682 ten-pin alley1835 lane1960 1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. sig. H5^v There was not a Billiard-Table, Boards-End, and Nine-Pin-yard, that I did not daily visit. 1709 London Gaz. No. 4525/3 Bowling-Greens, and Nine-pin Yards. b. † ninepin high adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1710 Brit. Apollo 10–13 Feb. Little dirty Brats scarce Nine-pin high. 1731 E. Cooke Hist. Col. Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion in Maryland Muse (ed. 3) i. 3/2 Wrapt in their little God of Strife, Who was (to draw him to the Life) From Head to Foot scarce Nine-pin high, Nor half so thick as Magogg's Thigh. C2. ninepin block n. Nautical (now historical) a block shaped like a ninepin. ΚΠ 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 156 Nine-pin-blocks, the shells..resemble the shape of a nine-pin... They are used to lead the running ropes in a horizontal direction. 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 116 Ninepin Block, a block in the form of a ninepin, used for a fair leader in the rail. 1943 Mariner's Mirror 29 181 The following ropes were belayed at the bitts.., the larger ones to the bitt heads or arms, and the smaller to belaying pins in the bitt rails, all first passing through either a sheave in the bitts or a ninepin block. † ninepin play n. Obsolete rare a game of ninepins. ΚΠ ?1716 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1873) II. 407 Nine pin play in Temple street. Derivatives † ninepin-like adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1704 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1547 The Nine-pin like Particles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1580
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