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pinny

/ ˈpɪnɪ /

noun

  1. a child's or informal name for pinafore

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In a column for Match magazine, he bemoaned: "The wraps are off England's new kit - and I'm saying now I don't like it. It has the looks of one of my mother's old pinnies!"

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Put him the red pinny, let him fling a couple around and find his closure.

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No part of my brain had previously been bothered by priorities that required pinnies.

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The shop at the Bauhaus is a joy – a place where it’s easy to blow €100 on cups, posh pencils and an arty pinny.

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His teammates have already pulled on red scrimmage pinnies.

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