Definition of "pinny" [pinny]

• A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over other clothes. (noun)
• A simple jersey worn to denote teams or groups. (noun)

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• "One advantage, of course, in being the newspaper man is that when you have a bad cold, as I have now, you merely tell your wife to bring your typewriter to you in bed, you put it on your "pinny" and the world can proceed on its majestic round; but I have to inflict my cold upon you and all these unseen guests."
• "Presently, from his discreet distance, he saw the mother-child going down the road toward Tod's, in her blue 'pinny' and corn-colored hair."
• "Boy, with his "pinny" on, ran off in glee to make himself promiscuously useful, and I sat down to plan an attack."