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A stickpin is a piece of jewellery: a long straight pin with a decoration — often a pearl, a small jewel, or a shaped piece of gold — on the top end. You push it through cloth so only the pretty head shows. Traditionally it was worn in a man's or cravat, which is why it is also called a tiepin or a tie tack, and it held the tie in place while looking good. It can also be worn on a coat lapel or a hat. The word is a noun. It is written as one word in American English (stickpin); British English more often just says tiepin. This is an old-fashioned thing, so the word appears mostly in stories set in the past, in descriptions of formal old-style clothing, and in antique shops. If a modern man wears something on his tie today it is usually a tie clip — a flat metal bar that grips, not a pin that goes through.
領帶針、飾針(別在領帶或衣領上,頭上有珠寶裝飾的那種長針)
組成stick + pin. "Stick" here is the verb meaning to push something pointed into or through a surface, and "pin" is the thin pointed metal object — so, a pin you stick through the cloth.
原始詞典資料1 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。
stickpinnoun/ˈstɪkpɪn/
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An ornamented pin used to secure a necktie's end flat against the shirt, a tie tack.
- His stickpin was gone and so was his watch-chain.
- The green stone in his stickpin was not quite as large as an apple.
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。