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▪ I. pinky, a.1|ˈpɪŋkɪ|
[f. pink n.4 or a.1 + -y: cf. rosy, creamy, etc.]
Tinged with or inclining to pink. a. Qualifying other adjs. or ns. of colour.
1776–96Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 225 Pileus and stem pinky white. 1817Coleridge Picture Poems 1829 I. 177 Sketched on a strip of pinky-silver skin. 1901G. Douglas Ho.w. Green Shutters 101 A piece of pinkey-brown paper in his hand..was the first telegram ever seen in Barbie. 1907Westm. Gaz. 2 Mar. 17/1 The little habit coats..are generally faced with..emerald-green, or blue, or even pinky-red. 1927D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico 29 Pale belly, and soft, pinky-fawn claws. 1946G. Millar Horned Pigeon vii. 78 The pinky-red pantiles of the terraced village. 1974Country Life 2 May 1055/2 Raised panels..painted in imitation of pinky-grey marble. 1975C. Fremlin Long Shadow x. 77 Myrtle's pinky-orangey lighting. 1977Vogue Feb. 94 Pinky blonde, double-faced wool shirtjacket.
b. Qualifying ns. in gen. Chiefly poet. or rhet.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 208 The wild-thyme's pinky bells. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 340 The urine..sometimes deposits a pinky sediment. 1872Calverley Fly Leaves, Lovers & a Reflection, Or rosy as pinks, or as roses pinky.
c. Comb., as pinky-coloured adj. Also pinky-faded adj.
1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. xvi. (1882) 160 note, Two engravings, the one a pinky-coloured plate of the day, the other a masterly etching by Salvator Rosa. 1926D. H. Lawrence Glad Ghosts 23 A big pinky-faded carpet.
▪ II. pinky, a.2 and n.
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