English Explanatory Dictionary

pink

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
  2. Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
  3. Pale red.
  4. Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
  5. A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.
  6. Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
  7. A huntsman.
  8. One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
  9. An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
  10. Alternative form of pinko.
  11. The vagina or vulva.
adj
  1. Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
  2. Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
  3. Having conjunctivitis.
  4. By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
  5. Relating to women or girls.
  6. Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
verb
  1. To become pink in color, to redden.
  2. To turn (something) pink.
  3. To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
noun
  1. The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
  2. A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
noun
  1. A narrow boat.
verb
  1. To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
  2. To prick with a sword.
  3. To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
noun
  1. A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.
  2. 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.
  3. A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.
verb
  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.
verb
  1. To wink; to blink.
adj
  1. Half-shut; winking.
noun
  1. Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
name
  1. A surname.
noun
  1. An operative of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

Pronunciation

/ˈpɪŋk/ [ˈpʰɪŋk] en-uk-pink.ogg /ˈpiŋk/ [ˈpʰiŋk] En-au-Pink.ogg

Word forms

pink pinks pinker pinkest pinking pinked

Etymology

Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“to blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked. An earlier word for similar flesh-like colors, mostly displaced by pink, was incarnation ([1300s]; see Etymonline) and carnation.

Synonyms

draw blood jab prick chef chib ching chive enthrill foin gore gride job juke kebab knifecrime lancinate pigstick pink poach run through shank shiv spear speet splash stab stick stob stog thrust yerk

Derived words

baby pink Baker-Miller pink Barbie pink blood pink blow me pink brink pink bubble-pink bunch pink candy pink Carolina pink champagne pink Cheddar pink clove pink Deptford pink Dutch pink firepink fringed pink gay as pink ink grass pink hink pink hunting pink in the pink in the pink of health little pink Mamie pink marsh pink Mexican pink millennial pink moss pink Mountbatten pink nonpink parlor pink parlour pink petal pink pink and grey cockatoo pink banana pink belly pink-billed lark pink bismuth pink bits pink bollworm pink box pink bunny pink canoe pink cedar pink ceiling pink cigar pink clouding pink cloud syndrome pink cocaine pink cockatoo pink-collar pink-collar work pink contract pink cornworm pink disease pink dollar pink dolphin pink-eared duck pinkeen

Translations

Arabic: قَرَنْفُل Azerbaijani: qərənfil Bulgarian: карамфил Catalan: clavell Chinese Cantonese: 康乃馨 Chinese Mandarin: 康乃馨 Czech: karafiát Dutch: anjer Estonian: nelk Finnish: neilikka French: œillet West-Frisian: anjer Galician: caravel Georgian: მიხაკი German: Nelke Hungarian: szegfű Italian: garofano Japanese: ナデシコ Kyrgyz: роза Lithuanian: gvazdikas Malagasy: rose Māori: māwhero Norwegian Bokmål: nellik Norwegian Nynorsk: nellik Occitan: ròsa Polish: goździk Portuguese: cravo Portuguese: cravina Romanian: garoafă Russian: гвозди́ка Serbo-Croatian: каранфил Serbo-Croatian: karanfil Spanish: clavel Swedish: nejlika Thai: สีชมพู Turkish: karanfil Volapük: diant Welsh: penigan Yiddish: נעגעלע Yiddish: גוואָזדיקע
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