pink

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
   • Both halves feature lyrics that are so teen-girly they sound like they were written in pink ink in a padlocked diary with hearts and frowny faces for punctuation.
2. 2

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

   • This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.
3. 3

   A perfect example

   A 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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   1. 4

      Hunting pink

      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.
   2. 5

      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.
   3. 6

      One 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.
   4. 7

      An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes

      An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.

   5. 8

      Alternative form of pinko.

   6. 9

      The vagina or vulva.

      • Then Eddie did what he calls, 'Two in the pink, one in the stink.' “I held up my right forefinger and middle finger and said, “Two.” Then I held up my ring finger and said “One. Two in the pussy, one in the ass.”
   7. 10

      Having a colour between red and white

      Having a colour between red and white; pale red.

   8. 11

      Of a fox-hunter's jacket

      Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.

   9. 12

      Having conjunctivitis.

   10. 13

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

       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.
   11. 14

       Relating to women or girls.

       • pink-collar
       • pink job
   12. 15

       Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.

       • the pink economy
       • pink pound
       • pink dollar
   13. 16

       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”
   14. 17

       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.
   15. 18

       To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.

   16. 19

       The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.

   17. 20

       A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt

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

   18. 21

       A narrow boat.

   19. 22

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

   20. 23

       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!”
   21. 24

       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.
   22. 25

       A 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.
       • The fellow's a shrewd fellow at a pink.
   23. 26

       Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition…

       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).

   24. 27

       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.
   25. 28

       To wink

       To 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.
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       Half-shut

       Half-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.
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       Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made…

       Any 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.
   28. 31

       A surname.

   29. 32

       An operative of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

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