Pinkname詞源 1

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  A surname.

Pinknoun詞源 2

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  derogatorydatedslangAn operative of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

pinknoun詞源 1/ˈpɪŋk/

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  A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.

  • My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.
  • 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.
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  A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.

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  A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.

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  Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.

  • This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.
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  datedA perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.

  • Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.
  • Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.
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  Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.

  • 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.
  • 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.
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  A huntsman.

  • The pinks stand about the inn-door lighting cigars and waiting to see us start, while their hacks are led up and down the market-place, on which the inn looks.
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  ball-gamesgameshobbiesOne of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.

  • Oh dear, he's left himself snookered behind the pink.

pinkadj詞源 1/ˈpɪŋk/

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  Having a colour between red and white; pale red.

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  Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.

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  Having conjunctivitis.

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  By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.

  • The word "socialist" has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism.
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  informalRelating to women or girls.

  • pink-collar
  • pink job
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  informalRelating to homosexuals as a group within society.

  • the pink economy
  • pink pound

pinkverb詞源 1/ˈpɪŋk/

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  To become pink in color, to redden.

  • The woman’s pale skin pinked as she shook her head. “No. It’s out of my budget. Come on, Sammy”
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  To turn (something) pink.

  • They are all nearly nude, pinked and bronzed by the sun.
  • The rabbits, still lining the roadside, but now pinked by dawn, craned their necks to follow her departure.
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  To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.

  • 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.”

pinknoun詞源 2/ˈpɪŋk/

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  regionalA common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus0.

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  regionalA young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.

pinknoun詞源 3/ˈpɪŋk/

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  obsoleteA narrow boat.

pinkverb詞源 4/ˈpɪŋk/

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  To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.

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  To prick with a sword.

  • ‘Pugh!’ says she, ‘you have pinked a man in a duel, that's all.’
  • 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!”
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  To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.

  • “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.

pinknoun詞源 4/ˈpɪŋk/

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  obsoleteA small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.

  • At a great word she will her poynard draw, Looke for the pincke if once thou giue the lye.
  • A freebooter’s pink, sir, three or four inches deep.
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  obsoleteA small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.

  • Item,..for iiil* powdringis and pinkis to the sam goune, .xij s
  • small pinks, cuts or iagges in clothes

pinkverb詞源 5/ˈpɪŋk/

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  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).

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  Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.

  • And then the record changed, a piano pinking high a Poulenc-like theme.

pinkverb詞源 6/ˈpɪŋk/

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  obsoleteTo wink; to blink.

  • 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.

pinkadj詞源 6/ˈpɪŋk/

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  obsoleteHalf-shut; winking.

  • 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.

pinknoun詞源 7/ˈpɪŋk/

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  historicalAny of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.

  • 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
  • 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.

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• pinko