| 单词 | pirlie pig |
| 释义 | pirlie pig Sc.
(ˈpɜːlɪ, Sc. ˈpɪrlɪ)
Also perly, pirly, etc.
[Prob. f. pirl v. + pig n.2: see Sc. Nat. Dict.]
A small money-box, usu. circular and made of earthenware, with a slot to insert coins. Also ellipt. as pirlie, etc.
1799‘Philetas’ in J. Thomson Hist. Dundee (1874) i. x. 127 Old women and children kept their pozes in their kist neuks and pirly pigs. 1831in Trans. Banffshire Field Club (1939) 33 One Stone purly 4/-. 1889J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xviii. 170, ‘I mind he broke open his pirly,..an' bocht a ha'penny worth o' something to ye every day. 1900Longman's Mag. Nov. 49 Donald did not possess a bike yet, and my ‘tips’ went into a perly pig in which he was saving up to buy one. 1905Athenæum 28 Jan. 118 The pirley-pig or circular money-box pertaining to the Town Council of Dundee. This pewter money-box is in the shape of an orange or flattened globe. 1912Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. XLVI. 353 Until thirty or forty years ago there was a good demand for modern pirlie pigs. 1934H. B. Cruickshank Noran Water 15 Ye've riped the pirlie mony's the time Withooten ony skaith. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 220/1 Pirlie pig, earthenware money-box. ‘Pig’ is a North Country word for an earthen jar: ‘pirlie’ is a diminutive indicating something of slight value. |
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