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单词 pink
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pink

See also: Pink

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: pĭngk, IPA(key): /pɪŋk/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /pɪŋk/, [pʰɪŋk]
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Etymology 1

Pinks: common minnows

Unknown. Some lexicographers suggest comparison to regional German Pinke (“minnow; small salmon”), but this is not widely accepted.[1]

Noun

pink (plural pinks)

  1. (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus. [from 15th c.]
  2. (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr. [from 17th c.]

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Dutch pincke.

Noun

pink (plural pinks)

  1. (now obsolete) A narrow boat. [from 15th c.]

Etymology 3

Probably from Dutch pingelen (“to do fine needlework”) or Low German [Term?]; compare Low German pinken (“hit, peck”) and Pinke (“big needle”).

Verb

pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)

  1. To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
  2. To prick with a sword.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
      ‘Pugh!’ says she, ‘you have pinked a man in a duel, that's all.’
    • 1999 [1844], Jacques Le Clercq, The Three Musketeers, translation of original by Alexandre Dumas, page 187:
      Within three seconds D'Artagnan pinked him thrice, dedicating each thrust as he dealt it. “One for Athos!" he cried. “One for Porthos!" and at the last, “one for Aramis!”
  3. To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
    • 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, OCLC 1036878670, page 127:
      “Young man, if you have no authority, let me speak to someone who has! Put me through to Mr. Berquist.” The stooge suddenly lost his smile and Jubal thought gleefully that he had at last pinked him.

Noun

pink (plural pinks)

  1. (obsolete) A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.
    1. (obsolete) A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.
      • 1601, Weever, Mirr. Mart., C j:
        At a great word she will her poynard draw, Looke for the pincke if once thou giue the lye.
      • 1607, Thomas Middleton, Your Five Gallants, iii 5:
        A freebooter’s pink, sir, three or four inches deep.
      • 1638, Ford, Lady's Trial, III. i:
        The fellow's a shrewd fellow at a pink.
      • 1885 May 13, Pall Mall G., 4/I:
        He is spotted with marks of stabs and revolver 'pinks', and he takes all his wounds quite as matter of course.
    2. (obsolete) A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.
      • 1512, Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot, IV 215:
        Item,..for iiil* powdringis and pinkis to the sam goune, .xij s
      • 1598, Florio, Tagliuzzi:
        small pinks, cuts or iagges in clothes
      • 1599, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Rev., v. iv:
        Is this pinke of equall proportion to this cut?
      • c. 1632–1641, Ben Jonson, Magnetick Lady, iii. 4:
        You had rather have / An ulcer in your body than a pink / More in your clothes.

Etymology 4

Various shades of pink
Pinks: carnation cultivars
Two doors in different shades of pink (left: peach, right: bubblegum)

Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pincken (“blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source (Etymology 6, below).[2] Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked (Etymology 3, above).

Noun

pink (plural pinks)

  1. Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations. [from 16th c.]
    This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.
  2. (dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality. [from 16th c.]
    Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.
    • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
      Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.
  3. (color) The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red. [from 17th c.]
    My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.
    pink:  
    light pink:  
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193, page 228:
      Jasper couldn't have known they'd been overheard upstairs, but his little smirk coming and going invited you to guess he'd been up to something. He had the pink of sex about him still.
  4. Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters. [from 18th c.]
    • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, page 23:
      I had taken it for granted that there would be people ‘in pink’, but these enormous confident strangers overwhelmed me with the visible authenticity of their brick-red coats.
    • 1986, Michael J. O'Shea, James Joyce and Heraldry, SUNY, page 69:
      it is interesting to note the curious legend that the pink of the hunting field is not due to any optical advantage but to an entirely different reason.
  5. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points. [from 19th c.]
    Oh dear, he's left himself snookered behind the pink.
  6. (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
  7. Alternative form of pinko
    • 1981, Edwin R. Bayley, quoting Ben Hibbs, Joe McCarthy and the Press, page 163:
      My own guess is that there are some pinks in the State Department and in other government departments and agencies, and of course they should be found and ousted; but it seems to me that this can be done without besmirching innocent people and without making such broadside charges that people will lose faith in all government.
  8. (slang) The vagina or vulva.
    • 2020 March 23, Mike Hatch, The Dumb Class: Boomer Junior High, Mike Hatch H&A Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:
      Then Eddie did what he calls, 'Two in the pink, one in the stink.' “I held up my right forefinger and middle finger and said, “Two.” Then I held up my ring finger and said “One. Two in the pussy, one in the ass.”
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Adjective

pink (comparative pinker, superlative pinkest)

  1. Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
  2. Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
  3. Having conjunctivitis.
  4. (obsolete) By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.
    • 1976, Bhalchandra Pundlik Adarkar, The Future of the Constitution: A Critical Analysis:
      The word "socialist" has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism.
  5. (informal) Relating to women or girls.
    pink-collar
    pink job
  6. (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
    the pink economy
    pink pound
    pink dollar
    pinkwashing
    pink triangle
Derived terms
  • clove pink
  • firepink
  • fringed pink (Dianthus superbus)
  • hunting pink
  • in the pink
  • moss pink
  • parlor pink, parlour pink
  • pink bits
  • pink-collar
  • pink dollar
  • pink elephants
  • pinkeye
  • pink gin
  • pinkie
  • pinkification
  • pinking shears
  • pink lady
  • pinko
  • pink of health
  • pink pound
  • pink salmon
  • pink slip
  • pink snapper
  • pinky
  • salmon pink
  • sea pink
  • shell pink
  • shocking pink
  • strike me pink
  • swamp pink
  • tickle pink
  • wild pink
Descendants
  • → Afrikaans: pienk
  • → Chuukese: pink
  • → Finnish: pinkki
  • → German: pink
  • → Irish: pinc
  • → Japanese: ピンク (pinku)
  • → Korean: 핑크 (pingkeu)
  • → Marshallese: piin̄
  • → Samoan: piniki
  • → Scottish Gaelic: pinc
  • → Southern Ndebele: -pinki
  • → Swahili: -a pinki
  • → Tokelauan: piniki
  • ⇒ Tok Pisin: pinkpela
  • → Welsh: pinc
  • → Xhosa: -pinki
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Verb

pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)

  1. (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
    • 2014, Teresa Carpenter, Her Boss by Arrangement‎, page 136:
      The woman’s pale skin pinked as she shook her head. “No. It’s out of my budget. Come on, Sammy”
  2. (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
    • 1961, Tennessee Williams, The Night of the Iguana, New Directions Publishing, 2009, Act II, page 46,
      They are all nearly nude, pinked and bronzed by the sun.
    • 1985, Carl Sagan, Contact, Simon & Schuster, 1997, Chapter 3, page 57,
      The rabbits, still lining the roadside, but now pinked by dawn, craned their necks to follow her departure.
  3. (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
    • 2012, David Federman, Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones‎, page 227:
      Because heating is relatively easy to perform once one is trained to do it, it can be assumed that any pink topaz from Brazil, the gem’s main modern producer, is colored more by man than nature. […] Relatively few stones from Brazil have this trace element in enough quantity for what dealers call “pinking.”

See also

  • (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
Colors in English · colors, colours (layout · text)
     white     gray, grey     black
             red; crimson             orange; brown             yellow; cream
             lime, lime green             green             mint
             cyan; teal             azure, sky blue             blue
             violet; indigo             magenta; purple             pink

Etymology 5

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)

  1. Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
  2. Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 590:
      And then the record changed, a piano pinking high a Poulenc-like theme.
Translations

Etymology 6

Borrowed from Dutch pinken.

Verb

pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)

  1. (obsolete) To wink; to blink.
    • 1692, Roger L'Estrange, “A Fox and a Cock”, in Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists‎, page 409:
      A Hungry Fox that had got a Cock in his Eye, and could not tell how to come at him ; cast himself at his Length upon the Ground, and there he lay winking and pinking as if he had Sore Eyes.

Adjective

pink (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Half-shut; winking.
    • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vii]:
      Come, thou monarch of the vine,
      Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
      In thy vats our cares be drowned,
      With thy grapes our hairs be crowned.

Etymology 7

Unknown. Attested from the late 15th century.[3]

Noun

pink (uncountable)

  1. (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
    • 1816, Pierre François Tingry, The Painter and Varnisher's Guide‎, page 245:
      To make Dutch pink, boil the stems of woad in a solution of alum, and then mix the liquor with clay, marl, or chalk, which will become mixed with the colour of the decoction
    • 2008, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, and Tracey Chaplin, Pigment Compendium‎, page 156:
      Carlyle (2001) lists from her study of nineteenth century British documentary sources yellow carmine, Dutch pink, English pink and yellow lake in descending order of intensity.

References

  1. “pink, n.3.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2006.
  2. “pink, v.2.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2006.
  3. “pink, n.1.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2006.

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English pink.

Adjective

pink

  1. pink coloured

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɪŋk/
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  • Hyphenation: pink
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pink m (plural pinken, diminutive pinkje n)

  1. pinkie (little finger)

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

pink m (plural pinken, diminutive pinkje n)

  1. one-year-old calf, a bovine yearling

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

pink m (plural pinken, diminutive pinkje n)

  1. a pink (historic coastal fishing boat with one mast, often landed on beaches)
Derived terms
  • → English: pink
  • → French: pinque
    • → Catalan: pinc
  • → Italian: pinco
  • → Portuguese: pinque

See also

  • bij de pinken zijn

Anagrams

  • knip

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German benk, most likely influenced by Swedish bänk.

Noun

pink (genitive pingi, partitive pinki)

  1. bench
    Tšaikovski pink
    the Tchaikovsky bench

Declension

Declension of pink (type riik)
singularplural
nominativepinkpingid
genitivepingipinkide
partitivepinkipinke / pinkisid
illativepinki / pingissepinkidesse / pingesse
inessivepingispinkides / pinges
elativepingistpinkidest / pingest
allativepingilepinkidele / pingele
adessivepingilpinkidel / pingel
ablativepingiltpinkidelt / pingelt
translativepingikspinkideks / pingeks
terminativepinginipinkideni
essivepinginapinkidena
abessivepingitapinkideta
comitativepingigapinkidega

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English pink.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɪŋk/
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  • Hyphenation: pink

Adjective

pink (strong nominative masculine singular pinker, comparative (very rare) pinker, superlative (very rare) am pinksten)

  1. coloured in a strong shade of pink
    • 2009, Mark Billingham (English text) and Isabella Bruckmaier (translated from English into German), Das Blut der Opfer. Ein Inspector-Thorne-Roman, Goldmann:
      Die unglaublich langen Beine des Mädchens wurden durch Strümpfe und ein pink Tutu betont.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

Usage notes

  • For paler shades, German does not use pink but rosa.
  • Pink is generally declined like a normal adjective: eine pinke Jacke (“a pink jacket”). Some prescriptive grammars and dictionaries like Duden state that declined forms are colloquial and that pink should be invariable (eine pink Jacke). However, such usage is very rare and would even strike a great deal of native speakers as ungrammatical. See the various corpora at www.dwds.de, which include hundreds of attestations for the declined forms, but at most a handful for invariable use in attributive position.

Declension

Positive forms of pink
number & gendersingularplural
masculinefeminineneuterall genders
predicativeer ist pinksie ist pinkes ist pinksie sind pink
strong declension
(without article)		nominativepinkerpinkepinkespinke
genitivepinkenpinkerpinkenpinker
dativepinkempinkerpinkempinken
accusativepinkenpinkepinkespinke
weak declension
(with definite article)		nominativeder pinkedie pinkedas pinkedie pinken
genitivedes pinkender pinkendes pinkender pinken
dativedem pinkender pinkendem pinkenden pinken
accusativeden pinkendie pinkedas pinkedie pinken
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		nominativeein pinkereine pinkeein pinkes(keine) pinken
genitiveeines pinkeneiner pinkeneines pinken(keiner) pinken
dativeeinem pinkeneiner pinkeneinem pinken(keinen) pinken
accusativeeinen pinkeneine pinkeein pinkes(keine) pinken
Comparative forms of pink
number & gendersingularplural
masculinefeminineneuterall genders
predicativeer ist pinker1sie ist pinker1es ist pinker1sie sind pinker1
strong declension
(without article)		nominativepinkerer1pinkere1pinkeres1pinkere1
genitivepinkeren1pinkerer1pinkeren1pinkerer1
dativepinkerem1pinkerer1pinkerem1pinkeren1
accusativepinkeren1pinkere1pinkeres1pinkere1
weak declension
(with definite article)		nominativeder pinkere1die pinkere1das pinkere1die pinkeren1
genitivedes pinkeren1der pinkeren1des pinkeren1der pinkeren1
dativedem pinkeren1der pinkeren1dem pinkeren1den pinkeren1
accusativeden pinkeren1die pinkere1das pinkere1die pinkeren1
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		nominativeein pinkerer1eine pinkere1ein pinkeres1(keine) pinkeren1
genitiveeines pinkeren1einer pinkeren1eines pinkeren1(keiner) pinkeren1
dativeeinem pinkeren1einer pinkeren1einem pinkeren1(keinen) pinkeren1
accusativeeinen pinkeren1eine pinkere1ein pinkeres1(keine) pinkeren1

1Very rare.

Superlative forms of pink
number & gendersingularplural
masculinefeminineneuterall genders
predicativeer ist am pinksten1sie ist am pinksten1es ist am pinksten1sie sind am pinksten1
strong declension
(without article)		nominativepinkster1pinkste1pinkstes1pinkste1
genitivepinksten1pinkster1pinksten1pinkster1
dativepinkstem1pinkster1pinkstem1pinksten1
accusativepinksten1pinkste1pinkstes1pinkste1
weak declension
(with definite article)		nominativeder pinkste1die pinkste1das pinkste1die pinksten1
genitivedes pinksten1der pinksten1des pinksten1der pinksten1
dativedem pinksten1der pinksten1dem pinksten1den pinksten1
accusativeden pinksten1die pinkste1das pinkste1die pinksten1
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		nominativeein pinkster1eine pinkste1ein pinkstes1(keine) pinksten1
genitiveeines pinksten1einer pinksten1eines pinksten1(keiner) pinksten1
dativeeinem pinksten1einer pinksten1einem pinksten1(keinen) pinksten1
accusativeeinen pinksten1eine pinkste1ein pinkstes1(keine) pinksten1

1Very rare.

References

  • “pink” in Duden online
  • “pink” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Swedish

Noun

pink n (uncountable)

  1. (slang) pee

Declension

Declension of pink 
Uncountable
IndefiniteDefinite
Nominativepinkpinket——
Genitivepinkspinkets——

See also

  • pinka

Anagrams

  • knip
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