spinniken

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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spinniken (plural spinnikens)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A workhouse.
    • 1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 184:
      […] 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.
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