Jasper couldn't have known they'd been overheard upstairs, but his little smirk coming and going invited you to guess he'd been up to something. He had thepink of sex about him still.
Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
1928,Siegfried Sassoon,Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published2013, page23:
I had taken it for granted that there would be people ‘inpink’, but these enormous confident strangers overwhelmed me with the visible authenticity of their brick-red coats.
1986, Michael J. O'Shea,James Joyce and Heraldry, SUNY, page69:
it is interesting to note the curious legend that thepink of the hunting field is not due to any optical advantage but to an entirely different reason.
Thepinks stand about the inn-door lighting cigars and waiting to see us start, while their hacks are led up and down the market-place, on which the inn looks.
(snooker) One of thecolour balls used insnooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.[from 19th c.]
Oh dear, he's left himself snookered behind thepink.
(slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compareBabbitt,bourgeoisie.
1981, Edwin R. Bayley, quoting Ben Hibbs,Joe McCarthy and the Press, page163:
My own guess is that there are somepinks in the State Department and in other government departments and agencies, and of course they should be found and ousted; but it seems to me that this can be done without besmirching innocent people and without making such broadside charges that people will lose faith in all government.
2020 March 23, Mike Hatch,The Dumb Class: Boomer Junior High, Mike Hatch H&A Publishing,→ISBN, page78:
Then Eddie did what he calls, 'Two in thepink, one in the stink.' “I held up my right forefinger and middle finger and said, “Two.” Then I held up my ring finger and said “One. Two in the pussy, one in the ass.”
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1991 August 24, Lori Nairne, “Whose Parade Is It, Anyway?”, inGay Community News, volume19, number 6, page 5:
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 apink one!)
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The rabbits, still lining the roadside, but nowpinked by dawn, craned their necks to follow her departure.
(transitive) To turn (atopaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
2012, David Federman,Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones[3], page227:
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.”
Within three seconds D'Artagnanpinked him thrice, dedicating each thrust as he dealt it. “One for Athos!" he cried. “One for Porthos!" and at the last, “one for Aramis!”
“Young man, if you have no authority, let me speak to someone who has! Put me through to Mr. Berquist.” The stooge suddenly lost his smile and Jubal thought gleefully that he had at lastpinked him.
1692, Roger L'Estrange, “A Fox and a Cock”, inFables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists[4], page409:
A HungryFox that had got aCock in his Eye, and could not tell how to come at him ; cast himself at his Length upon the Ground, and there he lay winking andpinking as if he had Sore Eyes.
1816, Pierre François Tingry,The Painter and Varnisher's Guide[5], page245:
To make Dutchpink, boil the stems of woad in a solution of alum, and then mix the liquor with clay, marl, or chalk, which will become mixed with the colour of the decoction
2008, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin,Pigment Compendium[6], page156:
Carlyle (2001) lists from her study of nineteenth century British documentary sources yellow carmine, Dutchpink, Englishpink and yellow lake in descending order of intensity.
Of obscure origin. Sometimes compared to Etymology 2 and 3 below in the sense of "something small." Perhaps related topin or otherwise borrowed from asubstrate language with unshiftedp-.
FromMiddle Dutchpinke, of unkown origin. Connections to Etymology 1 above ("pinkie") in the sense of "elongated object" remain purely hypothetical. Possibly connected withpink eye(literally“half-shut eye”), comparable to the semantics ofFrenchoeillet(literally“little eye”).[1] CompareProto-West Germanic*pinnā.
2009, Mark Billingham (English text) and Isabella Bruckmaier (translated from English into German),Das Blut der Opfer. Ein Inspector-Thorne-Roman, Goldmann:
Die unglaublich langen Beine des Mädchens wurden durch Strümpfe und einpink Tutu betont.
For paler shades, German does not usepink butrosa.
Pink is generally declined like a normal adjective:eine pinke Jacke (“a pink jacket”). Some prescriptive grammars and dictionaries likeDuden state that declined forms are colloquial and thatpink should be invariable (eine pink Jacke). However, such usage is very rare and would even strike a great deal of native speakers as ungrammatical. See the various corpora atwww.dwds.de, which include hundreds of attestations for the declined forms, but at most a handful for invariable use in attributive position.
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