chink
Meanings
noun
- A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
- A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.
- A chip or dent in something metallic.
- A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
verb
- To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
- To crack; to open.
- To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
noun
- A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
- Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
verb
- To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
- To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
noun
- Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”).
verb
- Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”).
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Chink.
noun
- A person of perceived Chinese ethnicity or descent.
- A person of perceived East Asian descent.
- A meal of Chinese food.
adj
- Chinese, or perceived to be Chinese.
- East Asian.
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Etymology
Of uncertain origin, but apparently an extension, with diminutive -k (see more at -ock), of Middle English chine (or, if already suffixed in Middle English, *chinek), from Old English ċine (“a crack, chine, chink”), equivalent to chine + -k.
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