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pink
I. \ˈpiŋk\ transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English pynken to make holes with a pointed instrument
1.
a.
(1) : to pierce with a sword or other pointed instrument : stab
< pinks him neatly in the arm — Life >
(2) : to wound with a bullet
< pinked three times by an assassin — Time >
(3) : to hit with a missile
< gets pinked so often because he crowds the plate — W.B.Furlong >
b. : to wound (as pride) by insensitivity : wound with the weapons of irony, criticism, or ridicule
< television, advertising, and urban gullibility … are rather easily pinked — John McCarten >
< pinked by the small darts of political enemies — W.S.White >
2.
a. : to cut or perforate (cloth, leather or paper) in an ornamental pattern that often shows an underlay of a contrasting color
b. : to cut a saw-toothed edge on (cloth, paper, leather) especially with pinking shears
3.
a. : adorn, decorate, deck
b. obsolete : tattoo
II. noun
(-s)
obsolete : a hole or eyelet made with or as if with a pinking iron
III. \ˈpiŋk\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English pynk, from Middle Dutch pinke
1. : a small Dutch fishing craft characterized by a full forebody narrowing to an almost pointed stern with an overhanging false counter
2. : any of various ships having a narrow overhanging stern — called also pinkie
IV. noun
(-s)
Etymology: alteration of earlier penk, from Middle English
1. dialect England : the European minnow
2. Britain : a newly hatched salmon or grayling
V. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: probably from Dutch pinken to wink, blink
1. chiefly dialect : to peer or peep with half-closed eyes : wink, blink
2. chiefly dialect : to gleam faintly : diminish, fade
VI. adjective
dialect chiefly Britain, of an eye : half shut : winking
VII. noun
(-s)
chiefly Scotland : a small gleam of light
•
- pink of the evening
VIII. noun
(-s)
Etymology: origin unknown
1. : a plant of the genus Dianthus: as
a. : cottage pink
b. : china pink
2.
a. : the very embodiment : paragon
< your new doctor is the pink of politeness — Encore >
< the pink and pattern of a soldier — Thomas Wood †1950 >
b. : a member of the elite : a person dressed in the height of fashion : swell, exquisite; also : elite
< the pink of Victorian propriety appeared — C.W.Cunnington >
c. : highest degree possible : height, extreme
< dressed in the pink of fashion — G.E.Fussell >
< keep their house in the pink of repair — Rebecca West >
•
- in the pink
IX. adjective
Etymology: pink (VIII)
1. : resembling the garden pink in color : being of the color pink
< tallish man with pink wrinkly face — R.W.Brown †1956 >
— often used in combination
< his fat pink-haired wife — Maeve Brennan >
2. : holding or believed to hold advanced liberal or moderately radical political or economic views
3. : moved, angered, excited
< would get quite pink on the subject — Graham Greene >
— often used as an intensive
< ought to be thrilled pink that you know an aristocrat like me — Calder Willingham >
< flattered pink at the charge — T.O.Heggen >
< scared pink of … friends with marriage in their eye — Ethel Wilson >
• pink·ness noun -es
X. noun
(-s)
Etymology: pink (IX)
1. : any of a group of colors bluish red to red in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation
2.
a.
(1) : the scarlet color of a fox hunter's coat
(2) : a fox hunter's coat of this color
(3) : a fox hunter
b. : pink-colored clothing
< dressed in pink >
c. pinks plural : light-colored trousers worn with a winter semidress uniform by army officers
3. : a person who holds advanced liberal or moderately radical political or economic views — compare red
4. : humpback salmon
XI. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: pink (IX)
intransitive verb
: to turn pink
< when the eastern sky was beginning to pink — T.W.Duncan >
< pinking up just a little — Victoria Case >
transitive verb
1. : to cause to turn pink
< pinked his ears with pleased embarrassment — J.H.Wheelwright >
2. : to change the color of (a topaz) to pink by heating
XII. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: imitative
: to make a tinkling or pinging noise : ping
< pinking like a hundred tiny coins — Gerald Durrell >
< when the mixture is too rich … the engine pinks — Cyril Connolly >
XIII. noun
(-s)
Etymology: imitative
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