pinky.
Pinkish.
Meaning & usage
Pinkish.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Dutch pinkenbor. English pink Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English pinky From pink + -y.
Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.
A white person.
The Australasian snapper or pink snapper (Chrysophrys auratus).
A kind of fishing schooner of New England.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Dutch pinkenbor. English pink Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English pinky From pink + -y.
The smallest finger or toe of a hand or foot.
Where this word comes from
From Dutch pinkje, diminutive of Dutch pink (“little finger”). Cognate with West Frisian pinke (“pinky”), dialectal English pink (“something small or tiny”), and perhaps to Old English pinca (“a point”). Compare also German Low German Pink (“penis”), English pintle (“penis”).
winking
Where this word comes from
From pink + -y, from pink (“to wink”).
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