pink
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“to blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked. An earlier word for similar flesh-like colors, mostly displaced by pink, was incarnation ([1300s]; see Etymonline) and carnation.
Inflected forms:
form: pinker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pinkest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pinked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pinked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
pos: adj
gloss: Having conjunctivitis.
pos: adj
gloss: By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
pos: adj
examples: The word "socialist" has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism.
gloss: Relating to women or girls.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: pink-collar
pink job
gloss: Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: the pink economy
pink pound
pink dollar
pink triangle
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!)
gloss: To become pink in color, to redden.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The woman’s pale skin pinked as she shook her head. “No. It’s out of my budget. Come on, Sammy”
gloss: To turn (something) pink.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They are all nearly nude, pinked and bronzed by the sun.
The rabbits, still lining the roadside, but now pinked by dawn, craned their necks to follow her departure.
gloss: To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Because heating is relatively easy to perform once one is trained to do it, it can be assumed that any pink topaz from Brazil, the gem’s main modern producer, is colored more by man than nature.[…] Relatively few stones from Brazil have this trace element in enough quantity for what dealers call “pinking.”
Derived words: baby pink
Baker-Miller pink
Barbie pink
blood pink
blow me pink
brink pink
bubble-pink
bunch pink
candy pink
Carolina pink
champagne pink
Cheddar pink
clove pink
Deptford pink
Dutch pink
firepink
fringed pink
gay as pink ink
grass pink
hink pink
hunting pink
in the pink
in the pink of health
little pink
Mamie pink
marsh pink
Mexican pink
millennial pink
moss pink
Mountbatten pink
nonpink
parlor pink
parlour pink
petal pink
pink and grey cockatoo
pink banana
pink belly
pink-billed lark
pink bismuth
pink bits
pink bollworm
pink box
pink bunny
pink canoe
pink cedar
pink ceiling
pink cigar
pink clouding
pink cloud syndrome
pink cocaine
pink cockatoo
pink-collar
pink-collar work
pink contract
pink cornworm
pink disease
pink dollar
pink dolphin
pink-eared duck
pinkeen
pink elephant
pinken
pink-eyed
pinkeye
pink eye
pink-eye
pinkface
pink fairy armadillo
pink film
pink flag
pink-footed goose
pink gin
pink ginger
pink gold
pink-handed
pink hat
pinkie
pinkification
pinkify
pinkish
pink ivory
pink jersey
pink lady
pink lady's slipper
pink lemonade
pinkly
pink meanie
pink money
pink moon
pinkness
pink noise
pinko
pink oboe
pink of health
pinkoid
pink panty dropper
pink peppercorn
pink pigeon
pinkpill
pink pound
pink puffer
pink river dolphin
pinkroot
pink salmon
pink salon
pink salt
pink sheet
pink shrimp
pink slime
pink-slime journalism
pink slip
pink snapper
pink spot
pink squirrel
pink stern
pink taco
pink tax
pink tea
pink tet
pink ticket
pink tide
pinktoe
pink triangle
pink 'un
pink underwing
pink up
pink velvet cake
Pinkville
pinkwash
pinkwashing
pink water
pink wave
pink weed
pink windmills
pinky
powder pink
prepink
rose-pink
salmon pink
Santa Fe pink
scared pink
sea pink
shell pink
shocking pink
sky blue pink
sky-blue pink
Southwestern pink
soylent pink
strike me pink
swamp pink
tickled pink
tickle pink
two in the pink, one in the stink
ultra pink
wild pink
windmill pink
Y2K pink
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