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pink

Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋk/

The English word “pink” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
  2. Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
  3. Pale red.
  4. Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
  5. A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.
  6. Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
  7. A huntsman.
  8. One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
  9. An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
  10. The vagina or vulva.
  11. A pink dye or pigment.
  12. A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of pink pigment.
  13. Something, or a part of a thing, which is pink.

adjective

  1. Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
  2. Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
  3. Having conjunctivitis.
  4. By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
  5. Relating to women or girls.
  6. Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.

verb

  1. To become pink in color, to redden.

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.

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