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spiniken

spiniken is the alternative form of spinniken.

Meaning of spinniken

Noun

spinniken (plural spinnikens)

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

Forms of spiniken

pluralspinikens

Questions about spiniken

What is spiniken the alternative form of?
Spiniken is the alternative form of spinniken.

Words near spiniken in the dictionary

  1. spinifexbirds
  2. spinifexes
  3. spiniform
  4. spinigerous
  5. spinigrade
  6. spiniken
  7. spinikens
  8. spinily
  9. spininess
  10. spininesses
  11. spinispirular

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