Meanings
nounpinnywinkles pl (plural only)
- alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of pilliwinks.
They prick us and they pine us, and they pit us on the pinnywinkles for witches; [...]
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
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