喜樂美語
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    The pinhead is the tiny round top of a pin — the bit you press with your finger so the sharp end goes into cloth or a board. It is extremely small, so people say something is “the size of a pinhead” when they mean it is almost too small to see. The word is quiet and practical: , , crafts. Though actually, you will also hear pinhead as a rude name for someone a speaker thinks is stupid; that use grew from the “tiny brain” joke, but this note is about the real object on the pin.

    針頭（大頭針圓圓的那一頭）

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組成pin（大頭針）+ head（頭、頂端）。

同家族的字

  • pinthe sharp little tool this is the top of
  • headthe top or rounded end of something

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Pinheadnoun

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    derogatoryslangA member of the Provisional IRA.

pinheadnoun/ˈpɪn.hɛd/

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    The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.)

    • The moment the nitre was red hot, the coal, previously reduced to small pieces of the size of a pinhead, was projected in portions of one or two grains at a time…
    • Settlements some centuries old, and still no bigger than pinheads on the untouched expanse of their background.
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    slangA foolish or stupid person.

    • I don't want to be a pinhead no more / I just met a nurse that I could go for
    • My daddy repairs cars driven by women who are pinheads.
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    slangA telemark skier.

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    slangmedicinesciencesA human head that is unusually tapered or small, often due to microcephaly, or a person with that trait. Often promoted in freak shows as "human pinheads".

    • The microcephalic idiot is an unfortunate with a "pinhead," sometimes exhibited as a "what's-it" in circus side-shows, whose mental age never goes beyond that of an imbecile.
    • Zip the What-Is-It was simply a Negro idiot. […] For half an hour at a time, David Belasco used to watch Zip at Coney Island. The producer insisted he saw signs of intelligence in the pinhead […]
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    slangA newborn cricket used as food for pets.

    • A newly hatched gecko will need pretty small crickets, but you will not have to go all the way down to pinheads.
    • Crickets can be purchased in many sizes from newborns ("pinheads") to adults.
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    biologymycologynatural-sciencesThe immature juvenile fruiting body of a mushroom prior to its gills opening.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。