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kink

verb
/ˈkɪŋk/US/ˈkiŋk/

Etymology

From Dutch kink (“a twist or curl in a rope”), from Proto-Germanic *kenk-, *keng- (“to bend, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gengʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid, weave”). Compare Saterland Frisian Kink (“twist or entanglement in a rope or cord”), Middle Low German kinke (“spiral screw, coil”), Old Norse kikna (“to bend backwards, sink at the knee”), Icelandic kengur (“a bend or bight; a metal crook”). Probably related to kick.

  1. derived from *gang-✻
  2. inherited from *kinkōną✻
  3. inherited from *kinkōn✻
  4. inherited from *cincian✻
  5. inherited from kinken

Definitions

  1. To laugh loudly.

  2. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.

  3. A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter

    A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.

  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.

      • We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.

    2. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.

      • They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.

    3. An unreasonable notion

      An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.

      • Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.
      • "Still, boozers can be worked sometimes. Most people can, if you encourage their kink. One old woman staked me for three months because she got such a kick out of scandalmongering the neighbours to me."

    4. Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.

      • No more kink. Nothing. Finito. Got it?
      • To top it all off, Lynn is into kink. Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.

    5. A person with peculiar sexual tastes.

      • "What do they think you know?" "No more than I've told you. That he's a kink. He rapes people and kills people and spends too much money and flies grass in."
      • “He's a kink. All I have to do is toss off my clothes and dance around his apartment while he sits and drools.”

    6. Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.

    7. A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.

    8. To form a kink or twist.

    9. To be formed into a kink or twist.

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Derived

antikink, dekink, kinkfic, kink meme, kinkshame, KinkTok, sun kink, unkink, YKINMK, kinky, kinkable, kinked, kinkle, kinkless, kink on, kink out, kinkster, unkinkable

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for kink. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA