pin man
/ˈpɪn man/noun
1In early use: a man who sells pins. In later use: a man who collects, sells, or trades souvenir pins or badges. Now rare.
2A figure of a person drawn in short straight lines without appreciable breadth; a matchstick figure.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in Crys of London. From pin + man.
- pudding class
- pudding cloth
- pudding club
- pudding-dish
- pudding-eater
- pudding face
- pudding-faced
- pudding grass
- pudding-head
- pudding heart
- puddingish
- pudding meat
- pudding pie
- pudding pipe
- pudding pit
- pudding-poke
- pudding-prick
- pudding race
- pudding-shaped
- pudding-sleeve
- pudding-stick
- puddingstone
- dinna
- dinnae
- dinna fash