spinniken

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A workhouse. UK,obsolete,slang
    — […] they all three compared notes on the several workhouses they had been at. One inclined to think that the workhouses in South Wales were the best. Another thought the Yorkshire 'spinnikens' were.

词形变化

spinnikens plural

词源

From spinning ken, alluding to one form of work done there.
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