pink
noun
- any of the colors between bluish red (purple) and red, of medium to high brightness and of low to moderate saturation
adjective
- any of the colors between bluish red (purple) and red, of medium to high brightness and of low to moderate saturation
verb
- pink color
- make a light tapping noise
- cut in a zigzag pattern using pinking shears
- puncture with small holes
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/ / [ˈpʰɪŋk] / /ˈpiŋk/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Dutch pinkenbor. English pink Borrowed from Dutch pinken.
- 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.”
name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from Old English pinca (“chaffinch”). This would not be a native Germanic inheritance as the expected form would be finc, thus probably borrowed or contaminated from Vulgar Latin *pincio (see French pinson) and its related parallels. * Also as an English surname, from rare Middle English pink (“something small”), presumably related to pinkie. * As a German occupational surname for a blacksmith, from imitative pink(e)pank, after the sound of hammering. * As a Lower Sorbian surname, variant of Pjeńk, see Penk.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: Unknown. Attested from the late 15th century.
- 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.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Dutch pinkenbor. English pink Borrowed from Dutch pinken.
- 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.”