The name can mean little hillock from the Celtic `pennuc` or `pennoc` but also a possibility of a nickname of someone who may have resembled a hedge sparrow from Middle English. It originates from the Gloucestershire area of the United Kingdom and has been recorded as `Pinnok` as far back as 1248. There are variations of this as Pinock, Pinn...
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• (n.) The hedge sparrow. • (n.) The tomtit.
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Pin'nock noun [ Of uncertain origin.]
(Zoology) (a) The hedge sparrow. [ Prov. Eng.]
(b) The tomtit.
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