kink

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɪŋk/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈkhɪŋk]
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• /ˈkiŋk/ Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Canada, pre-/ŋ/ tensing
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• [ˈkhiŋk] Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Canada, pre-/ŋ/ tensing
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• Australian: /ˈkɪ̝ŋk/
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• Australian: [ˈkhɪ̝ŋk]
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• rhymes with -ɪŋk
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From Middle English kinken, kynken, from Old English *cincian (attested in cincung), from Proto-West Germanic *kinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *kinkōną (“to laugh”), from Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock, jeer, deride”), related to Old English canc (“jeering, scorn, derision”). Cognate with Dutch kinken (“to kink, cough”).

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.

85 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: извивка (izvivka) — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Bulgarian: чупка (čupka) — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Catalan: distorsió — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Catalan: remolí — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Catalan: arruga — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Dutch: kink — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Finnish: sykkyrä — tight curl, twist, or bend
• French: coude — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Georgian: მარყუჟი (marq̇uži) — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Georgian: ყულფი (q̇ulpi) — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Georgian: ნაკვთი (naḳvti) — tight curl, twist, or bend
• German: Knick — tight curl, twist, or bend
• German: Kurve — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Hebrew: קשר (kesher) — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Portuguese: dobra — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Portuguese: prega — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Romanian: răsucitură — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Romanian: zuluf — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Russian: переги́б (peregíb) — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Russian: заги́б (zagíb) — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Russian: изги́б (izgíb) — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Spanish: arruga — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Spanish: pliegue — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Spanish: doblez — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Spanish: dobladura — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Spanish: doblegadura — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Spanish: retorcedura — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Spanish: onda — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Swedish: knut — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Swedish: veck — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Swedish: fnurra — tight curl, twist, or bend
• Czech: zádrhel — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Finnish: puute — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Finnish: vika — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• French: hic — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• French: imprévu — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Georgian: პრობლემა (ṗroblema) — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Georgian: დაბრკოლება (dabrḳoleba) — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• German: Macke — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Russian: пробле́ма (probléma) — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Russian: препя́тствие (prepjátstvije) — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Spanish: problema — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Spanish: impedimento — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Spanish: pero — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Spanish: inconveniente — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Swedish: brist — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Swedish: problem — difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
• Catalan: desviació — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Catalan: perversió — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Chinese Mandarin: 性癖 (xìngpǐ) — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Chinese Mandarin: xp — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Finnish: kierouma — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• French: bizarrerie — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• French: excentricité — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• French: perversion — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• French: kink — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• German: Perversion — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Greek: διαστροφή (diastrofí) — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Greek: εκκεντρικότητα (ekkentrikótita) — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Hungarian: perverzió — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Hungarian: beteges hajlam — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Hungarian: ferde hajlam — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Italian: perversione — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Portuguese: tara — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Portuguese: perversidade — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Romanian: fetiș — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Romanian: perversiune sexuală — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Russian: заско́к (zaskók) — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Russian: ненорма́льность (nenormálʹnostʹ) — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Russian: стра́нность (stránnostʹ) — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Russian: отклонение (otklonenije) — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Russian: извращение (izvraščenije) — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Spanish: desviación — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Spanish: rareza — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Spanish: desvarío — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Spanish: excentricidad — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Swedish: avvikelse — peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
• Bulgarian: правя чупка (pravja čupka) — to form a kink or twist
• Romanian: răsuci — to form a kink or twist
• Russian: перегну́ться (peregnútʹsja) — to form a kink or twist
• Russian: перекрути́ться (perekrutítʹsja) — to form a kink or twist
• Spanish: arrugar — to form a kink or twist
• Spanish: doblar — to form a kink or twist
• Spanish: retorcer — to form a kink or twist
• Spanish: doblegar — to form a kink or twist