adj
Meaning 1
Pinkish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pinky
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈpɪŋki/
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rhymes with -ɪŋki
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homophone: pinkie
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CMU ARPABET: P IH1 NG K IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
winking
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, historical, slang, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
A white person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: abelungu, ang moh, Angrez, balanda, béké, bule, cac, Caucasian, cornstarch crusader, cracker, cumskin, Eurangutan, European, farang, firangi, gringo, gora, gussuk, gweilo, haole, honky, hoogie, hoojah, ice monkey, ivory, joganosh, kabloona, laowai, leucoderm, mayo, mayo monkey, mayonnaise face, melanin-challenged, migaloo, mlungu, mzungu, ofay, oyinbo, paddy, Pakeha, paleface, pigskin, pinky, roundeye, saltine, snow bunny, snow roach, toubab, umlungu, vazaha, vanilla, wadjela, white, whiteboy, white bread, white devil, whiteface, white man, whitey, Whitoid, wigger, wonderbread, Yankee
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noun
Meaning 6
The Australasian snapper or pink snapper (Chrysophrys auratus).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, countable, informal, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A kind of fishing schooner of New England.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
The smallest finger or toe of a hand or foot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Scotland, US, informal
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noun
Meaning 9
the finger farthest from the thumb
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: little finger, pinkie
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: minimus, finger
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Dutch pinkenbor. English pink Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English pinky From pink + -y.
From pink + -y, from pink (“to wink”).
From Dutch pinkje, diminutive of Dutch pink (“little finger”). Cognate with West Frisian pinke (“pinky”), dialectal English pink (“something small or tiny”), and perhaps to Old English pinca (“a point”). Compare also German Low German Pink (“penis”), English pintle (“penis”).
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: tenttu — slang: methylated spirits
- Finnish: tenu — slang: methylated spirits
- Arabic: دِرْص (dirṣ) — baby mouse
- Esperanto: musido — baby mouse
- Finnish: pinkki — baby mouse
- German: neugeborene Maus — baby mouse
- Ukrainian: мишеня (myšenja) — baby mouse
Real reading context