pinny
- n a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing
- He was so deaf by that time that he could hear nothing of the great, surging music called for by the pinny, almost illegible little notes he had made.
- He wrote of her in one of the pinny, almost illegible letters which have survived him: "The Saxophone Lady is inquiring about her piece.
- Thereby he gave the Laborites a prime chance to whoop, heckle and deride him as a soup-will, a ninny-pinny.