# kink
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɪŋk/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋk

### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Alternative forms

* chink

#### Verb

kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
* To laugh loudly.
* To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.

#### Noun

kink (plural kinks)
* (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.

### Etymology 2

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 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.

#### Alternative forms

* k1nk, k!nk, k/nk, k*nk (bowdlerizations)

#### Noun

kink (countable and uncountable, plural kinks)
* 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.
* 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.
* An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
** 1856, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, The Sparrowgrass Papers: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.
** 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 17:"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."
* (informal, countable or uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
    Synonym: paraphilia
    Antonym: normophilia
** 2013, Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore, page 13: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.
* (informal, countable) A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
    Synonym: kinkster
** 1985, John Dann MacDonald, Five Complete Travis McGee Novels, page 254:"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."
** 2013, James Hadley Chase, A Can of Worms:“He's a kink. All I have to do is toss off my clothes and dance around his apartment while he sits and drools.”
* (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.

##### Derived terms

* kink meme
* kinkshame
* kinky
* sun kink
* YKINMK

##### See also

* BDSM
* fetish

#### Verb

kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
* (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
* (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.

##### Derived terms

* kinked
* kinkle
* kinkless
* kink on
* kink out
* kinkster
* kinky

##### Translations
#### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “kink”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Knik

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch *kinc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɪŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: kink
* Rhymes: -ɪŋk

### Noun

kink f (plural kinken, diminutive kinkje n)
* kink (curl, twist, or bend)
    Er zat een kink in de kabel.(please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Derived terms

* kinkhoorn

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: kink
* → Papiamentu: kènk, kenku

## Estonian
### Etymology 1

From Low German schenke.

#### Noun

kink (genitive kingi, partitive kinki)
* gift
* favour/favor

##### Derived terms

* jõulukink

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate to dialectal Finnish kenkku.

#### Noun

kink (genitive kingu, partitive kinku)
* small mound, knoll

##### Derived terms

* häbemekink

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From ki (“who”) +‎ -nk (“our, of ours”, possessive suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkiŋk]
* Hyphenation: kink

### Pronoun

kink
* first-person plural single-possession possessive of ki

#### Declension
## Yola
### Etymology

A nasal form from Middle English kyken. Compare also robunkshough (“roebuck forest”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɪŋk/

### Verb

kink (simple past kinket)
* to toss or trip, kick

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 50