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▪ I. kink, n.1|kɪŋk|
Also 7 keenk, 8 kenk.
[prob. a. Du. kink twist, twirl, = G. kink, kinke, Da., Sw. kink, app. from a root *kink-, *kik-, to bend, twist; cf. Icel. kikna to bend at the knees, keikr bent back.]
1. a. A short twist or curl in a rope, thread, hair, wire, or the like, at which it is bent upon itself; esp. when stiff so as to catch or cause obstruction. (Orig. nautical.) Also transf. of a ‘crick’ or stiffness in the neck, etc.
1678Phillips (ed. 4) App., Keenk (in Navigation), is when a Rope which should run smooth in the Block, hath got a little turn, and runs as it were double. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Kink, a sort of twist or turn in any..rope, occasioned by it's being very stiff or close-laid; or by being drawn too hastily out of the roll. 1778Nairne in Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 834 Where there happened to be kenks in the wire. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Kink, an entanglement in a skein. 1833Marryat P. Simple xx, Your back with a bow like a kink in a cable. 1848Yale Lit. Mag. XIV. 82 (Th.), Come! wake up, and shake the kinks out of your land legs. 1851H. Melville Whale iii, I tore myself out of it in such a hurry that I gave myself a kink in the neck. 1857Mayne Reid War Trail xiii. 67 Yes, there was the same negress with..the little well-oiled kinks hanging like corkscrews over her temples! 1893G. D. Leslie Lett. Marco xxv. 167 The clematis, tomato, and some others, form kinks in their leaf-stems, which secure the plants very effectively. 1894S. R. Bottone Electr. Instr. Making (ed. 6) 125 Care should be taken to wind this wire evenly, closely, and without kinks. 1930[see cronk a.]. 1962Kenyon Rev. XXIV. 94 Don't worry about Saturday night. Play around. Work the kinks out. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard 259 There existed kinks in the man's career; it was only a question of drawing on the right one.
b. A sudden bend in a line, course, or the like that is otherwise straight or smoothly curved.
1899S. Baring-Gould Furze Bloom 27 That [wall] on the left makes a kink to respect ‘The Brothers' Grave’. 1928L. S. Palmer Wireless Princ. & Pract. v. 132 The curve sometimes exhibits a sudden ‘kink’ or discontinuity. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai v. 74 Below the kink the street degenerates rapidly. 1971Sunday Express (Johannesburg) 28 Mar. 7/1 A new grandstand for 2,000 spectators at the kink on the main straight.
2. fig.
a. A mental twist; an odd or fantastic notion; a crotchet, whim. In recent use also = a state of madness; an instance of, the practice of, or suffering resulting from sexual abnormality.
b. An odd but clever method of doing something; a ‘dodge’, ‘wrinkle’.
18..Carlton New Purchase (Bartlett), It is useless to persuade him to go, for he has taken a kink in his head that he will not. 18..Major Jones's Courtship 20 (ibid.), I went down to Macon to the examination, whar I got a heap of new kinks. 1803T. Jefferson Let. 24 Nov. in Writings (1897) VIII. 280 Should the judges take a kink in their heads. 1876W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 414, I have done a little towards bringing up young people without kinks. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 110 The hundred and one recent valuable wrinkles, dodges and kinks that float through the photographic press. 1915F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier iv. ii. 229 By a kink, that I could not at the time understand, Miss Hurlbird insisted that I ought to keep the money all to myself. 1924[see ensnarl v.1]. 1950T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party ii. 120 And so you suppose you have what you call a ‘kink’? 1959Encounter Mar. 22 Hates kissing. Undertakes most kinks..but no buggery. 1959M. Gee in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 279 He's got a kink I reckon. He'll end up in the nuthouse. 1965Movie Summer 44/4 The result is the story of the sexual hallucinations of a young girl..played for flat-out kink.
3. U.S. A human being in various slang applications.
a. A Black person, a Negro. Obs.
1865J. H. Browne Four Yrs. in Secessia xxxix. 288 ‘Coming the kink’ was to steal a negro from the country, and dispose of him in town. 1944Amer. Speech XIX. 173 Kink shows an obvious allusion to the Negro's hair.
b. A criminal.
1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 52 Kink, a crook; a larcenous criminal. Also used by yeggs to designate a non-criminal tramp, or one who is not initiated into the particular craft of the speaker. 1950H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 117/2 Kink (scattered areas of East and near South), a thief, especially an expert in stealing automobiles.
c. A sexually abnormal person; one who practises sexual perversions; loosely, an eccentric, a person wearing noticeably unusual clothes, behaving in a startling manner, etc.
1965Harper's Bazaar Jan. 54/1 His phone is ex-directory because of all the kinks who used to phone at 2 a.m. 1967[see kickster]. 1968B. Turner Sex Trap xv. 149, I believe the psychiatrists have other ideas about what makes a kink kinky. 1972‘J. Ripley’ My Word you should have seen Us 35, I have known queers. I have known kinks.
▪ II. kink, n.2 Sc. and north. dial.|kɪŋk|
[f. kink v.1: cf. the equivalent chink n.1]
A fit or paroxysm, as of laughter or coughing, that for the moment catches the breath.
1788W. Marshall Yorksh. Gloss. s.v. (E.D.S.), A kink of laughter. 1790Morrison Poems 215 (Jam.) We value their frowns not a kink. 1822Hogg Perils of Man I. xii. 311 The honest man's gane away in a kink. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Kink, keenk, a paroxysm of coughing or of laughter.
▪ III. kink, v.1 Sc. and north. dial.|kɪŋk|
Forms: (1 cincian), 4 kinc, 5 kynke, 7 kinck, 7– kink.
[Northern form of chink v.1, OE. cincian, corresp. to LG. kinken, app. a nasalized variant of Teut. *kîk-an, whence MHG. kîchen, Ger. keichen, Sw. kikna, Norw. kikje, to gasp, pant, fetch breath with difficulty. Occurs in most modern Teutonic langs., as the first element of the name of the chincough, kinkcough, or kinkhost.]
intr. To gasp convulsively for breath, lose the breath spasmodically, as in hooping-cough or a severe fit of laughing. a. with laughing.
c1050Suppl. ælfric's Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 171/39 Cachinnatio, ceahhetung uel cincung. c1325Metr. Hom. 83 Full ille bers us lah and kinc Quen apon this bischop we think. c1460Towneley Myst. xxx. 152 Peasse, I pray the, be still, I laghe that I kynke. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 90 Hee laughs and kinckes like Chrysippus when he saw an asse eate figs. 1802Sibbald Sc. Poetry Gloss., Kink,..to laugh immoderately. 1894Hall Caine Manxman vi. iv. 368 The child..laughed and squealed till she ‘kinked’.
b. as in hooping-cough.
1674–91Ray N.C. Words, To Kink,..spoken of Children when their Breath is long stopped through eager crying or coughing. 1863Mod. Yorksh. Dial., Poor child coughs till it kinks again. 1883C. F. Smith Southernisms in Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 51 Kink..used in West Virginia, and perhaps elsewhere, of a child's losing its breath by coughing especially, or crying, or laughing. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss., Kink, to..labour for breath, as in the whooping-cough. Mod. Sc. She does not kink much, she has it lightly.
Hence ˈkinking vbl. n.1 and ppl. a.1
c1050[see a above]. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 81 With ever-kincking vaine The bellowes of his breath he tore in twaine.
▪ IV. kink, v.2|kɪŋk|
Also 8 kenk.
[prob. a. Du. kinken (Hexham), f. kink kink n.1]
1. intr. To form a kink; to twist or curl stiffly, esp. at one point, so as to catch or get entangled: said of a rope or the like.
1697W. Dampier Voy. I. ii. 17 The Line in drawing after him chanc'd to kink, or grow entangled. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 48 Always have one, or more swivels on the line, which will prevent its kenking. 1867F. Francis Angling iv. (1880) 107 The running line snarls, and kinks. 1891H. L. Webb in Electr. in Daily Life, Making a Cable 193 Occasionally a sounding was spoiled by the wire kinking.
2. trans. To cause to kink; to form a kink upon; to twist stiffly. Also fig. (Usually in passive.)
1800Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 346 Arguments..such as none but a head, entangled and kinked as his is, would ever have urged. 1886J. M. Caulfeild Seamanship Notes 4 Cable is full of turns and kinked. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 651 The shortened bowel may be kinked or twisted.
Hence kinked |kɪŋkt| ppl. a. (also in extended use), ˈkinking vbl. n.2 and ppl. a.2; also ˈkinkable a., liable to kink.
1794Rigging & Seamanship 55 Kinking, the twisting or curling of a rope, by being twisted too hard. c1865J. Wylde in Circ. Sc. I. 250/2 That there may be no loose or ‘kinked’ places. 1891Daily News 24 June, Garden hose..non-kinkable hose is preferred. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 489 Pyloric kinking may occur with rapid aggravation of the state. 1966Punch 5 Oct. 521/1 Others were delighted by the elegance of the language and the sinister kinked logic governing the behaviour of the characters. 1967A. Hunter Gently Continental viii. 127, I am scared. I can't protect Trudi. Frieda is kinked. 1969D. C. Hague Managerial Econ. iv. 92 The kinked demand curve is derived from the..curves we have already been using in our analysis of trade association pricing. 1970D. Uhnak Ledger (1971) vii. 97 Stoner Martin massaged the back of his neck. ‘This kind of work can sure leave you kinked up.’ |