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shink.

To pour or serve wine or beer; to skink.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. To pour or serve wine or beer; to skink.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English shynken, schenken, schenchen (“to pour, pour a drink”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankijan, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Doublet of skink.

intj
  1. The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc).

  2. The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc). In particular, the sound of a blade sliding into or out of something.

Where this word comes from

Onomatopoeic. Compare shunk.

verb
  1. To slide with the shink sound of metal sliding.

Where this word comes from

Onomatopoeic. Compare shunk.

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