pinny
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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What do you think he’s hiding under his grandma’s pinny?
From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2015
In Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray dressed James Dean's dad in a pinny and explored the devastation wrought on the adolescent psyche by the absent and inadequate father.
From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2014
Not sure he looks great in a pinny, either.
From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2013
The seven images I've seen include one blonde Sindy with a food mixer and pinny, one in full princess party mode and another with a T-shirt that hopes to ram the message home: "100% fresh".
From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2012
Let me go, and sorra a rap I’ll spind of the lashings of goold Cousin Lanty will give me, but bring every pinny home safe and sound, just as he puts it into my hand!”
From Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn, George Manville
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