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▪ I. spink, n.1 Now dial.|spɪnk|
Forms: 5–7 spynke, 6 spynk, 6–7 spinke, 6– spink.
[prob. imitative of the note of the bird: cf. pink n.6]
1. One or other of the finches; esp. the chaffinch.
Also, in Lancs., Westm., Cumbld., the yellow-hammer.
c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 640 Hic rostellus, spynke. 1483Cath. Angl. 355/2 A Spynke.., spinx. a1529Skelton P. Sparowe 407 The larke with his longe to; The spynke, and the martynet also. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v, The Spink, the Linot, and the Gold Finch fill All the fresh Aire with their sweet warbles shrill. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme vii. lv. 886 The spinke is a very beautifull and melodious birde, but all spinkes haue not one and the same tunes. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. xiv, The little bird called a spink or chaffinch. 1767W. Harte Amaranth, Eulogius Poems (1810) 385 The spink chants sweetest in a hedge of thorns. 1787Latham Gen. Syn. Birds Suppl. I. 165 The Chaffinch..called by some..Spink, from its cry. 1811–in various dial. glossaries, chiefly northern, midland, and E. Anglian. 1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 341 Collops of hare, with roast spinks rare.
†b. Sc. Used as an abusive epithet. Obs.—1
1508Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 552 Spynk, sink with stynk ad Tertara Termagorum.
2. With distinguishing prefix, as herring spink, the golden-crested wren; † mountain spink, the mountain finch or brambling. Also goldspink.
1611Cotgr., Passe de bois, the little brambling, or mountaine Spinke. 1906Westm. Gaz. 21 July 13/1 By the fisher⁓men of the North Sea these little birds are known as ‘herring spinks’.
3. Used to imitate or represent the characteristic note or cry of certain birds. (Usually with repetition.)
1898R. Kearton Wild Life at Home 82 Some tantalising accident scared her off with an angry ‘spink, spink, spink’. 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy 195 Here..the stone-chats cried ‘Spink! spink! spink!’
Hence spink v. intr., to utter the note ‘spink’.
1892Blackw. Mag. July 103 He spinks, and chatters, and vibrates his little quill. 1898R. Kearton Wild Life at Home 54 [The young blackbirds] ‘spink, spink, spinked’ as loudly and angrily as if a cat had intruded itself upon them.
▪ II. spink, n.2 north. dial.
[Related to LG. spinke, spinkel freckle, spinkel a speckled cow, spinkelt speckled, spinkeln to glitter.]
†1. A spot or marking of a different colour on cattle. Obs.—1
1550–1York Wills (Surtees) VI. 306 Too blake whies, one with a whyte spynke of the backe.
2. (See quot. 1829.)
1829Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2), Spink, a spark of fire or light. 1870Gibson Up-Weardale Gloss. (E.D.D.), Not a spink of light.
▪ III. spink, n.3 Sc. and north.
[Of obscure origin.]
The cuckoo-flower or lady-smock, Cardamine pratensis.
Freq. erroneously defined as ‘a pink’ (Jamieson, 1808), or confused with other plants, as the primrose or polyanthus.
1773Fergusson Poems (1785) 139 Or can our flow'rs, at ten hours bell The Gowan or the Spink excell? 1806A. Douglas Poems 99 Countless spinks an' daisies springin, Gaily deckt ilk vale an' hill. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 9 Dear daffodillies, Kingcups and spinks, and livelie lillies.
▪ IV. † spink, a. Obs.
[Cf. spink n.2]
= next.
1558in Archæol. Jrnl. V. 316, I gyve to Isabell Carter one spynke oxe. 1618–9Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) II. 54 A brandid spink cow. |