pinko
English
Etymology
pink + -o, a variation of red (“Communist”, noun), as pink is a lighter, more diluted form.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɪŋkəʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɪŋkoʊ/
- Rhymes: -ɪŋkəʊ
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
pinko (plural pinkos or pinkoes)
- (informal, often derogatory, chiefly US) A socialist, particularly one who is not wholly communist. [from mid-1930s]
- 1934 October 22, “Gentlemen & Guttersnipes”, in Time Magazine, number 17, page 45:
- At Princeton a lone townsman cried "Down with Mussolini!" in the midst of a reception, was jostled by students, escorted off the campus. At Harvard the pinko National Students League protested to President Conant, but allowed the visitors to tour Cambridge in peace.
- 1947 November 30, Thomas F. Brady, quoting Bryan Foy, “Hollywood Divided”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- “I agree with the decision one hundred per cent,” he said. “And if I find any pinkos that I don't know about on my lot I'll get rid of them if I can. They don't even have to be Communists. I'll try to clean out any leftists.”
- 1966, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 136:
- He'd be on her ass in a microsecond, revoke her letters testamentary, they'd call her names, proclaim her through all Orange County as a redistributionist and pinko, slip the old man from Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus in as administrator de bonis non and so much baby for code, constellations, shadow-legatees.
- 2011 October 24, Archangel Michael, “The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy”, in Slashdot:
- Until society collectively starts using terminology like this effectively, all you'll end up with is a bunch of Commie Pinkos Stinking[sic] up parks around the country "Occupying" without a clear goal or message.
- 2014, Astra Taylor, quoting Kevin Kelly, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
- Kelly reassures his readers that the people who run this emerging economy are not left-wing in any traditional sense. They are “more likely to be libertarians than commie pinkos,” he explains.
- 2020 December 14, Bryan Bruce, “10 years since the Child Poverty documentary, what’s changed?”, in The Daily Blog:
- Almost 10 years ago I made a documentary called Inside Child Poverty. Some people (largely members of John Key’s government) got very angry with me. I was a left wing pinko journo making this stuff up in an election year.
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Related terms
- pink
Translations
socialist (informal or derogatory)
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See also
- communist
- red
- socialist
Finnish
Etymology
Back-formation from pingottaa (“to stretch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpiŋko/, [ˈpiŋko̞]
- Rhymes: -iŋko
- Syllabification(key): pin‧ko
Noun
pinko
- (informal, derogatory) Synonym of hikipinko (“studious student”).
- 2022 June 22, Ulla Järvi, “Kuka selittäisi puritaaneille, että seksistä voi nauttia?”, in Yle:
- Olin koulussa pinko. Todistusnumeroilla oli minulle ennen kaikkea välinearvoa: pääsisin pois tylsästä kirkonkylästä opiskelemaan Tampereelle.
- I was a swot at school. The grades on my diploma had, above all, a purpose as an instrument: they'd get me out of the boring rural village to study in Tampere.
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Declension
| Inflection of pinko (Kotus type 1*G/valo, nk-ng gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pinko | pingot | |
| genitive | pingon | pinkojen | |
| partitive | pinkoa | pinkoja | |
| illative | pinkoon | pinkoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pinko | pingot | |
| accusative | nom. | pinko | pingot |
| gen. | pingon | ||
| genitive | pingon | pinkojen | |
| partitive | pinkoa | pinkoja | |
| inessive | pingossa | pingoissa | |
| elative | pingosta | pingoista | |
| illative | pinkoon | pinkoihin | |
| adessive | pingolla | pingoilla | |
| ablative | pingolta | pingoilta | |
| allative | pingolle | pingoille | |
| essive | pinkona | pinkoina | |
| translative | pingoksi | pingoiksi | |
| instructive | — | pingoin | |
| abessive | pingotta | pingoitta | |
| comitative | — | pinkoineen | |
| Possessive forms of pinko (type valo) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | pinkoni | pinkomme |
| 2nd person | pinkosi | pinkonne |
| 3rd person | pinkonsa | |
Compounds
- hikipinko
See also
- pinkopahvi
Anagrams
- kipon, kopin, pokin