mink
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Middle English mynk (“fur of the European mink”), apparently from Swedish mink, mänk, menk (“stinking animal in Finland, mink”). Compare Danish mink (“mink”), Icelandic minkur (“mink”).
Inflected forms:
form: mink
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minx
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammal in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neogale vison) and the European mink (Mustela lutreola).
pos: noun
examples: The Minx […] frequents the water like the Otter, and very much reſembles it in ſhape and color, but is leſs; will abide longer under the water than the muſk quaſh, muſk rat, or little beaver: […]
[Friday 7.] I ſhot three brace of grouſe, and found a mink in one of the traps which I tailed yesterday. [Saturday 8.] The ſame trap caught another mink to-day.
Many of these birds are destroyed by Weasels and Minxes.
He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.
The Mink, so highly valued for its fur, being an amphibious animal, is equally at home upon the land or in the water. […] The relentlessness with which trapping has been pursued has threatened, in some localities, the extermination of the Mink, and the legislature of at least one State has properly made it punishable by fine to kill a mink between the months of March and November following.
Scientists are wondering if otters might help control the mink. Otters live in the same habitats that American mink do. They like to be near water, just as mink do. They also eat the same foods that mink eat.
gloss: The fur or pelt of a mink, used to make apparel.
pos: noun
examples: From Michaelmas 1739. to Michaelmas 1740. Skins. […] Mink at 2s. 4d. Elk at 8s. Deer at 2s. 7½ per Skin.
H. H. Young, district manager, is the proud possessor of a fine mink fur, which he found in his hen house. The mink, while wearing the fur, visited Young's hen house once too often and was cornered there a few mornings ago.
There are, unfortunately, three kinds of minks: standard ranch minks, wild minks (that is, good wild minks, notably those from Labrador), and ranch mutation minks. Standard ranch minks are brown to black-brown and are the ones that wind up in $3,000-to-$5,000 coats. Labrador minks are dark blue-brown; coats made of them cost up to $20,000. Mutation minks come in many colors at prices that require courage to quote aloud.
I seem to be able to get SS officers to worry about me, millionaires to propose to me, and yet I am absolutely unable to present myself as the kind of person I am. I couldn't care less about mink coats or diamonds. Not for one moment do I consider marrying Mr. Rabinowitz.
gloss: An article of clothing made of mink.
pos: noun
examples: At one point, money was stolen from one of the bedrooms. […] Afte that, the family employees were often tested. [Katherine] Jackson would leave the alarm on the closet unarmed, the one in which she kept her minks, chinchillas, and other expensive furs.
He had noticed Marilyn putting a flask into the coat of her mink after she talked to the Gent, and he was sure there had been nothing in the pockets earlier, when he helped her into it before she sang "Happy Birthday."
gloss: A person with poor personal hygiene; a smelly person.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
derogatory
slang
Related words: polecat
Derived words: American mink
Eurasian mink
European mink
fuck like a mink
mink coat
minked
minkery
mink frog
minkhound
minkish
minkless
minklike
mink oil
mink plasmacytosis
minky
Russian mink
sea mink
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