pink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭngk
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: /pɪŋk/
ipa: [pʰɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: pinker
form: pinkest
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked.
Senses: glosses: Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
glosses: Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
glosses: Having conjunctivitis.
examples: text: The word "socialist" has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism.
ref: 1976, Bhalchandra Pundlik Adarkar, The Future of the Constitution: A Critical Analysis:
glosses: By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
examples: text: pink-collar
text: pink job
glosses: Relating to women or girls.
examples: text: the pink economy
text: pink pound
text: pink dollar
text: pink triangle
text: The lesbian and gay movement must decide whether the Parade is for celebrating how far we've come as we further our struggle for liberation, or whether it is going to be just another profit-making industry, supporting lesbian and gay careerism and becoming part of the Establishment (albeit a pink one!)
ref: 1991 August 24, Lori Nairne, “Whose Parade Is It, Anyway?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 5:
glosses: Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
Derived terms: word: baby pink
word: Baker-Miller pink
word: Barbie pink
word: blood pink
word: blow me pink
word: brink pink
word: bubble-pink
word: bunch pink
word: candy pink
word: Carolina pink
word: champagne pink
word: Cheddar pink
word: clove pink
word: Deptford pink
word: Dutch pink
word: firepink
taxonomic: Dianthus superbus
word: fringed pink
word: gay as pink ink
word: grass pink
word: hink pink
word: hunting pink
word: in the pink
word: in the pink of health
word: little pink
word: Mamie pink
word: marsh pink
word: Mexican pink
word: millennial pink
word: moss pink
word: Mountbatten pink
word: nonpink
word: parlor pink
word: parlour pink
word: petal pink
word: pink and grey cockatoo
word: pink belly
word: pink-billed lark
word: pink bismuth
word: pink bits
word: pink bollworm
word: pink box
word: pink bunny
word: pink canoe
word: pink ceiling
word: pink cigar
word: pink clouding
word: pink cloud syndrome
word: pink cocaine
word: pink cockatoo
word: pink-collar
word: pink-collar work
word: pink contract
word: pink cornworm
word: pink disease
word: pink dollar
word: pink dolphin
word: pink-eared duck
word: pinkeen
word: pink elephant
word: pink eye
word: pinkeye
word: pink-eye
word: pink-eyed
word: pinkface
word: pink fairy armadillo
word: pink film
word: pink flag
word: pink-footed goose
word: pink gin
word: pink ginger
word: pink gold
word: pink-handed
word: pink hat
word: pinkie
word: pinkification
word: pinkify
word: pinkish
word: pink ivory
word: pink jersey
word: pink lady
word: pink lady's slipper
word: pink lemonade
word: pinkly
word: pink meanie
word: pink money
word: pink moon
word: pinkness
word: pink noise
word: pinko
word: pink oboe
word: pink of health
word: pinkoid
word: pink panty dropper
word: pink peppercorn
word: pink pigeon
word: pinkpill
word: pink pound
word: pink puffer
word: pink river dolphin
word: pinkroot
word: pink salmon
word: pink salon
word: pink salt
word: pink shrimp
word: pink slime
word: pink-slime journalism
word: pink slip
word: pink snapper
word: pink spot
word: pink squirrel
word: pink stern
word: pink taco
word: pink tax
word: pink tea
word: pink tet
word: pink ticket
word: pink tide
word: pinktoe
word: pink triangle
word: pink 'un
word: pink underwing
word: pink up
word: pink velvet cake
word: Pinkville
word: pinkwash
word: pinkwashing
word: pink water
word: pink wave
word: pink windmills
word: pinky
word: powder pink
word: prepink
word: rose-pink
word: salmon pink
word: Santa Fe pink
word: scared pink
word: sea pink
word: shell pink
word: shocking pink
word: sky-blue pink
word: sky blue pink
word: Southwestern pink
word: soylent pink
word: strike me pink
word: swamp pink
word: tickled pink
word: tickle pink
word: two in the pink, one in the stink
word: ultra pink
word: wild pink
word: windmill pink