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▪ I. pink-eye1
[f. pink a.1 + eye n.1]
1. (Also pink eye potato.) A variety of potato having pink eyes or buds.
1795W. MacRitchie Diary Tour Eng. in Antiquary Apr. (1896) 111/2 The Pink-eye potatoe, as it is here called, is becoming the fashionable potatoe of this country. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 602 The pink-eyes and copper-plates are of a hardy nature. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Pinkneys, pink-eyes, a particular species of potatoe with red eyes or ends. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk.
2. a. A contagious fever or influenza in the horse, so called from the colour of the inflamed conjunctiva. b. A contagious form of ophthalmia in man (and in some likestock), marked by redness of the eyeball.
1882Field 28 Jan. 130/3 The American term, ‘pink-eye’,..is commonly given to the disease. 1883Times 21 Feb. 8/4 Pink-eye is excessively prevalent among all classes of horses, particularly work horses in Sheffield. 1886Arch. Ophthalm. XV. 451 This form of conjunctivitis is contagious and epidemic; it appears most plentifully in the spring and fall months... From the peculiar congestion of the ocular conjunctiva it has become popularly known as ‘pink eye’. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 120 Clement Dukes believes that suffusion of the conjunctiva—pink-eye—may be the only symptom of an attack of rubella. 1933[see bung-eye s.v. bung n.1 6]. 1938S. Duke-Elder Text-bk. Ophthalm. II. xxxii. 1541 The intensity of the hyperæmia, sometimes associated with petechiæ, is characteristic, giving it [sc. Koch-Weeks' conjunctivitis] the popular name of ‘pink-eye’. 1951R. Seiden Livestock Health Encycl. 376 Pinkeye or specific ophthalmia..is an inflammatory condition of the eyes of cattle and sheep. 1974[see Koch-Weeks bacillus].
3. An Australian species of duck (see quot.).
1896Newton Dict. Birds 842 Apparently allied to the genus Spatula is Malacorhynchus membranaceus, the ‘Pink-eye’ of Australians, so called from a spot of that colour..just behind the eye in the drakes.
4. slang. (chiefly Austral. and Canad.). Cheap whisky or red wine. (See also quot. 1945.) Cf. pinkie, pinky n.3 1 and red-eye 4.
1900Cornhill Mag. June 778 His capital consisted of a yoke of oxen, a waggon, six four-gallon kegs of pink-eye and a Winchester rifle. 1941Coast to Coast 23 Better put that bottle away... If the trooper comes round somebody'll be getting into trouble for selling Charley pinkeye again. 1941[see pinkie, pinky n.3 1]. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. ix. 166 Recipes as published by an outback newspaper in 1936... Methylated spirits and Condy's crystals. (Pinky.).. Addicts of these noxious drinks are known as meths..and pinkeyes. 1953W. B. Mowery Sagas of Mounted Police 125 At Benders' joint, the price of a pint of pink-eye was a day's hard labor in a mine-head.
▪ II. pink-eye2 Austral.|ˈpɪŋkaɪ|
Also pink-hi, pinkie.
[Aboriginal name.]
A festival or holiday.
1924Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush viii. 110 It was holiday—pinkie, the natives called it. 1929K. S. Prichard Coonardoo 18 The tribes for a hundred miles about had gathered for pink-eye on Wytaliba. 1936H. Drake-Brockman Sheba Lane xi. 131 He found his natives in good tucker and clothes and gave the faithful Jimmy..a horse and cart for the yearly pinkhi, when he visited his tribe. 1969O. White Under Iron Rainbow 139 This year Nolan's Ford Picnic Races and Rodeo..was obviously going to be a successful pink-eye. |