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mink|mɪŋk|
Also 5–6 mynk(e, 8 minck, 8–9 minx.
[Found in Sw. as mänk, menk, ‘a stinking animal in Finland’. (The word is app. not known as Finnish.)]
1. The skins or fur of the animals mentioned below (see sense 2); a garment made of this fur.
1466Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 371 My mastyr bout of the skynner of Bury xx. mynkes prise xiij.s. viij.d. 1530Palsgr. 245/2 Mynkes a furre, minques. 1545Lanc. Wills (1857) II. 63 My gowne faced withe mynkys and welted withe tawnye velvet. 1707E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. iii. ii. 256 Of Furrs, Filches,..Mincks, Sables, 40 Skins is a Timber. 1883Harper's Mag. Dec. 90/1 The bewitching little muff trimmed with mink. 1951F. Loesser in Swerling & Burrows Guys & Dolls (1960) ii. i. 44 (song-title) Take back your mink. Ibid. 45 Take back your mink Those worn out pelts And go shorten the slevees [sic] For somebody else. 1969S. Ellin in Ellery Queen's Grand Slam (1971) 19 Two cars, a new mink whenever you feel like it. 1972J. Gill Tenant iii. ii. 87 On their tenth wedding anniversary he had given her a silver mink.
2. a. A small, semi-aquatic, stoat-like mammal belonging to any of several species of the genus Mustela, esp. the American mink, M. vison, which is farmed for its dark brown fur.
1624Capt. Smith Virginia ii. 27 Weesels, and Minkes we know they haue, because we haue seene many of their skinnes. 1771J. R. Forster tr. Kalm's Trav. N. Amer. II. 61 The English and the Swedes gave the name of Mink to an animal of this country. 1792Pennant Arctic Zool. I. 100 Minx Otter. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 220 Its skin is blacker than that of an Otter..; ‘as black as a Mink’ being a proverbial expression in America. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 253/2 Minx, a name for the Vison-weasel. 1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 62 M[ustela] lutreola, Pall. (The Mink or Norek.) It frequents the banks of rivers, &c., in the north and east of Europe... It is the Mink of the United States. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 160 Specimens of Otters, Fishers, Minks, Musk-rats, Weasels, Seals. 1914W. T. Hornaday Wild Life Conservation iv. 146 In farming communities, the Mink, Weasel, Skunk, Raccoon, and even the Opossum all become so destructive to poultry as to constitute pests. 1965D. Morris Mammals 282 American Mink are farmed extensively for their lustrous, rich-brown pelts, and these animals have been deliberately introduced into other parts of the world because of their economic importance... In Britain, specimens which have escaped from fur farms have set up breeding colonies that are causing some concern.
b. A dark brown colour.
1955Punch 16 Mar. 349/2 Colours are black, white, mink, and blue. 1961Guardian 16 Jan. 4/7 There is a new colour available in the range [of blankets]—‘mink’. 1971Vogue 15 Sept. 30 This exciting trouser suit..[is] available in Mink/Black and Mulberry/Dark Navy.
3. = kingfish d.
1888Goode Amer. Fishes 122 The King-fish, Menticirrus nebulosus, also known as..the ‘Sea Mink’ in North Carolina.
4. attrib., as mink coat, mink farm, mink farmer, mink farming, mink head, mink oil, mink ranch, mink ranching, mink skin, mink stole, mink tail, mink throat.
1928A. Christie Mystery of Blue Train x. 71 Perfectly dressed in a long mink coat and a little hat of Chinese lacquer red. 1958Daily Mail 21 Mar. 5/2 A mink coat for his wife? ‘Good gracious, I don't think so.’ 1975‘M. Duke’ Death of Holy Murderer 7 An inside pocket of her mink coat.
1965in P. Jennings Living Village (1968) 246 On the mink farm..mating took place early in March. 1967Guardian 26 Aug. 3/6 There is a mink farm near by, and..householders have been protesting..about the smell.
1961A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo i. 53 A drunken failed mink farmer from Essex.
1916Yukon Territory (Canada Dept. Interior) 188 The following practical hints on mink farming have been recently published.
1902Mink head [see mink throat below].
1965Harper's Bazaar June 46 To take care of cuticles, some extravagant materials are used—the latest being mink oil. 1974Times Herald Record (Middletown, N.Y.) 22 Apr. 12/2 What about mink oil? It is close to the human lipid and helps to control the moisture balance and moisture retention.
1948A. L. Rand Mammals E. Rockies 92 In Alberta the number of mink ranches has increased steadily from 35 in 1929 to 773 in 1943.
1916Yukon Territory (Canada Dept. Interior) 188 Mink ranching will become an important industry.
1678Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 349, 22 mincq skins great and smal. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 220 Mink skins.
1969‘E. Lathen’ Murder to Go (1970) 230 Mrs. Chester Brewster..in a mink stole. 1974D. Ramsay No Cause to Kill ii. 111 A mink stole or a diamond bracelet.
1892Daily News 15 Oct. 7/2 Mink tail is much used by those who cannot afford sable.
1902Ibid. 18 Dec. 4/2 The mink throat has pretty white markings, whilst the mink head is plain brown.
b. fig. in attrib. and Comb. uses: opulent, sumptuous, wealthy.
1960Spectator 4 Nov. 681 A mink-stoled Republican residential suburb of Chicago. 1966Radio Times 22 Sept. 22/1 Kenton gives the mink touch to half-price electric heating.
Hence ˈminkery U.S., a ‘kennel’ or breeding place for minks.
1877Coues Fur Anim. vi. 182 Mr. Resseque's minkery consists of twelve stalls. |