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pinny

British  
/ 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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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

I was 'fraid to see Cousin Charlotte with my dirty pinny on; and I came out here and you weren't anywhere, and then I was so tired I lay down.

From The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch

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