English Explanatory Dictionary

shink

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To pour or serve wine or beer; to skink.
intj
  1. The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc).
  2. In particular, the sound of a blade sliding into or out of something.
verb
  1. To slide with the shink sound of metal sliding.

Word forms

shink shinks shinking shinked

Etymology

From Middle English shynken, schenken, schenchen (“to pour, pour a drink”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankijan, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Doublet of skink.

Derived words

nuncheon
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