pin
verb
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noun
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Origin
From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”).
Phrases
- pin a rose on your nose
- pin back
- pin back one's ears
- pin down
- pin in
- pin on
- pin one's ears back
- pin one's hopes on
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