# Pinterest
## English
### Etymology

From Pinterest, an American image-sharing social media service that enables users to save (“pin”) posts, itself a blend of pin +‎ interest.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

Pinterest (plural Pinterests)
* (informal) A Pinterest account.
** 2012 March 29, Carly B. Schrider, “Pinterest provides unique online outlet for fashion, marketing: Celebrities, students, Tru(4)ia magazine collect ideas, showcase creativity via stylish website”, in The Etownian, volume 108, number 18, Elizabethtown, Pa.: Elizabethtown College, →OCLC, page 6, column 6:She allows users to repin her pictures on their Pinterests for their own admiration. Recently, I’ve been following her Pinterest and found that white pencil jeans, platform dress sandals and hi-low chiffon maxi skirts are popping into spring collections and fashionistas’ closets.
** 2023, Sophie White, chapter 12, in My Hot Friend, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN:She scanned the rest of the ideas she’d amalgamated on her Pinterest: handmade candles, homemade jams, woven baskets, pot pourri with a signature scent.
** 2024, Becca Rothfeld, “Other People’s Loves”, in All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:She had a Facebook, an Instagram, a Twitter, a blog, a LinkedIn, a Pinterest, and a Goodreads account. […] On her Pinterest, she had amassed hundreds of pictures of wedding dresses on a board called “Someday Soon:D.”

### Verb

Pinterest (third-person singular simple present Pinterests, present participle Pinteresting, simple past and past participle Pinterested)
* (informal) To use the service Pinterest.
** 2013, Brian Solis, WTF?: What's the Future of Business? Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences, Wiley, →ISBN, page 153:Embracing new network such as Facebook and Twitter, placing social and "viral" content on YouTube and in blogs, […] hosting Pinteresting boards for products, is all fine and good. But, even in the design of these new media strategies, many experiences consumers are having are vague, disjointed, or undefined.
** 2016, Miranda Talley Reagan, STEM-Infusing the Elementary Classroom, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 5:I was legitimately using Pinterest to find lesson ideas, home decorating tips, and healthy recipes. But somehow along the way I discovered the Humor category. And the rest is history. From that point on, my Pinteresting was no longer productive. Those little cartoons with the sarcastic yet truthful sayings make me laugh every time.
** 2019, Lauren Layne, Love on Lexington Avenue, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 268:"Eh. Maybe a little. I guess he did some stuff. Built the kitchen, redid the bathrooms, changed all the flooring, painted all the walls ..." "But you Pinterested hard," Audrey pointed out. "I did. I really did. Thank you for noticing."
** 2021, Kathleen O'Brien, Reclaim Your Right to Grow Old, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 62:Even if we start with a mini-Sabbath, say just a few hours every weekend, we can find that restful place for ourselves. You can turn off your computer and your phone. You can stop texting, emailing, Instagramming, tweeting, Facebooking, TikTok-ing, Pinteresting, downloading, and using apps. You don't have to be in touch 24/7. It's not going to kill you. It may help you live longer.

#### Related terms

* Pinterestaholic
* Pinterester
* Pinterestian

### See also

* pinboard