| 单词 | pence-pinching |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspence-pinching a. General attributive with the sense ‘of, relating to, or involving pence’, as pence-collection, †pence-dealing, †pence-lack, etc.; †pence-encumbered, pence-paying, pence-pinching adjs. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > lack of money pence-lackc1400 a short purse1548 disability1624 low tide1699 embarrassment1727 impecuniosity1818 soldier's thigh1841 pennilessness1852 hard-uppishness1859 hard-upness1869 ooflessness1889 c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 374 (MED) Þere nas no crystene creature..That he [sc. Conscience] ne halpe a quantite, holynesse to wexe; Somme þorw bedes-byddynge..And other pryue penaunce, and some þorw penyes [v.rr. pens, pans] delynge. c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 142 For þey..makeþ þe peple for pens-lac in pointe for to wepe. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 43/1 Entertainments got up for the relief of pence-encumbered pockets. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 2/1 Their painful pence-collection likened itself in my mind to O'Connell's repeal-rent. 1899 Athenæum 21 Oct. 548/1 Two insular and pence-paying realms. 1907 Gentleman's Mag. June 565 Without a thought beyond the day's pence-grubbing. 1995 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 4 Aug. f2 In a pence-pinching move, Queen Elizabeth's royal yacht is up for sale. < as lemmas |
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