Word Meanings - PUSHPIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A child's game played with pins. L. Estrange.

Related words: (words related to PUSHPIN)

• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• CHILDCROWING
  The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
• PLAYFELLOW
  A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
• PLAYTHING
  A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse. A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. Locke.
• CHILDBED
  The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
• PLAYSOME
  Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
• PLAYGAME
  Play of children. Locke.
• PLAYER
  1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
• ESTRANGEDNESS
  State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• SPLAYFOOT
  A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• WORDPLAY
  A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.
• PHOTOPLAY
  A play for representation or exhibition by moving pictures; also, the moving-picture representation of a play.