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▪ I. pinkie, pinky, n.1|ˈpɪŋkɪ|
Also pinkey.
[f. pink n.1 + -ie, -y, dim. suffix; or ? ad. MDu. pinke.]
A narrow-sterned fishing-boat; = pink n.1 Also attrib. and Comb., as pinkie-stern schooner.
1843Knickerbocker XXII. 187 The ‘pinkie’ is a schooner rigged craft,..sharp at both ends, a short peak running up aft, and designed for a chasing sea. 1873G. H. Procter Fisherman's Memorial 72 Uncle Charlie's first remembrance was of the pinkey fleet. 1874Motley Barneveld I. viii. 339 The Scheveningen fisherman..forgot the cracks of his pinkie. 1882Century Mag. XXIV. 350 These pinkies are highly picturesque and seaworthy. 1882Fisherman's Own Bk. 40 They were the old style of pinkey, without bowsprit or shrouds, with two masts and hempen sails. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Pinkie, a fishing vessel with a high, narrow-pointed stern. Used in the cod and coast fisheries. 1886[see chebacco]. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. vi. 136 My father he run his packet, an' she was a kind a' pinkey, about fifty ton, I guess. 1903N.Y. Tribune 25 Oct. 14 On another occasion the Houghton ran into a pinkey-stern schooner. 1950R. Moore Candlemas Bay 7 Capt. Malcolm Ellis..had gone from a rowboat to a pinky to a mackerel schooner, and finally to a fleet of mackerel schooners. 1972Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 19 May 1/5 Illusion of jetliner perched atop twin masts of reproduction of old pinky schooner was created this week..as jets broke through low overcast.
▪ II. pinkie, pinky, a. and n.2|ˈpɪŋkɪ|
Also pinkey.
[Either f. pink a.2, or the orig. form of that word.]
A. adj. Small, diminutive, tiny: in general sense, a childish word. Sc. pinkie een, ‘eyes that are narrow and long, and that seem half-closed’ (Jam.). Cf. pink a.2, pinkeny 1. Chiefly Sc.
1594[see pinkeny 1]. 1715Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. ii. vii, Meg Wallet wi' her pinky een Gart Lawrie's heart⁓strings dirle. 1808Jamieson, Pinkie, small in a general sense: ‘There's a wee pinkie hole in that stocking’. 1818W. Midford Collect. Songs 31 A bussy-tailed pinkey wee Frenchman. 1896Barrie Sent. Tommy ii. 16 Never again should his pinkie finger go through that warm hole.
b. Comb. pinkie-eyed, pinky-eyed, having small eyes. pinky-eyed John = pinkeny John, the pansy.
1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. viii, A long-chinned pinky⁓eyed female.
B. n. Anything small; spec. the little finger (Du. pink). Also attrib.
Orig. Sc., but now also quite common in certain areas of the U.S.
1808Jamieson, Pinkie, the little finger; a term mostly used by children, or in talking to them. 1828Moir Mansie Wauch i. 12 His pinkie was hacked off by a dragoon. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Pinky (Dutch pink), the little finger. 1898J. Paton Castlebraes ix. 297 Raither..than lift yae wee pinkie tae save that Deevilish man. 1931A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle i. iii. 51 ‘I just flicked him with my pinkie,’ declared Brodie complacently. 1941Sun (Baltimore) 13 Oct. 8 (caption) Pinkey straight up, that's the class way to drink tea, pal! 1948Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 15 Mar. 17/4, I grip the ball with my thumb and pinky. 1950J. Dempsey Championship Fighting 34 You might call that pinky knuckle the exit of your power line. 1958P. De Vries Mackerel Plaza 155 My eye met Mrs. Spensible's across the room, and I thrust out my pinkie, smiling innocently. 1962Auden Shepherd's Carol in Musical Times Oct. (Suppl.) 1 O lift your lit-tle pin-kie, and touch the win-ter sky. 1965E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen vi. 140 Even the most elegant lady poured tea or coffee from her cup into her saucer to cool and then, with delicately extended pinkie, drank it from the saucer. 1970S. Ellin Bind lix. 299 Gela stared at him, gnawing at a hangnail on his pinkie. 1971G. M. Brown Fishermen with Ploughs 21 Fish as small as your pinkie. 1973‘J. Marks’ Mick Jagger (1974) 11 As for Mick, he splashes on some fragrance and checks his eyeliner with his pinkie. 1975New Yorker 1 Dec. 48/1 Seemed like his arm was always around somebody, and always there was the smell of his rich wool suit, the flash of a pinkie ring, a cloud of Havana, and Houtek's barony voice saying you and him were friends. 1976Scottish Rev. Spring 3 Are ye still eatin' vinegar with a fork and holdin' out yer pinkie when ye sup yer tea? 1977New Yorker 24 Oct. 122/2 Pagano had two pinky rings with nice stones.
▪ III. pinkie, pinky, n.3|ˈpɪŋkɪ|
[f. pink n.4 and a.1 + -ie, -y6.]
1. Cheap red wine; (see also quot. 1941). slang (chiefly Austral.).
1897Session Paper Cent. Criminal Court 10 & 11 Mar. 417, I know I have done wrong; it is all through the drink; I have been having a drop of pinkie, and I am sorry for it. 1935K. Tennant Tiburon 93 Staines, nodding his fat, puffy face into his cup of pinkie..hadn't a very good head for the cheap raw wine he was drinking. 1936A. Russell Gone Nomad vii. 55 Beer, whisky, ‘pinky’, delirium tremens, sore heads, and sandy blight were the chief..maladies of the field. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 54 Pink-eye,..an addict of the noxious drink called ‘pinky’, the constituents of which are either red wine and methylated spirits or methylated spirits and Condy's crystals. 1958Maclean's Mag. 27 Sept. 63/3 Pinkie [in St. John's, Newfoundland] is a cheap wine highly regarded by waterfront connoisseurs, a chaser for screech. 1959D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) vii. 93 He'd drink anything they reckoned, plonk, pinkie, straight metho.
2. A white person (see also quot. 1970). slang.
1967Observer 10 Sept. 17/2 The racial discrimination that black school-leavers find when they look for jobs is not a surprise: it is a confirmation. By the time they leave school, whites have become ‘pinky’, ‘the grey man’ or..‘Mr. Charlie’. Ibid. 17/3 I've got a white friend I've known from school... No, I'm not a pinky-lover! He's learned to think black and think white and I can trust him. 1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 91 Pinky.., Afro-American girl who looks white. 1972K. Johnson in T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out 145 Pinkie, refers to the skin color of white women.
3. = pink n.4 10. Cf. pinko n.
1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1442/3 He called for a Liberal party ‘crusade’ to defeat the ‘reds, the pinkies and the socialists’ who are responsible for inflation. 1978R. Barnard Unruly Son xv. 166 He was always a drawing-room pinkie... As far as contact with the working-class movement was concerned, he hadn't any.
▪ IV. pinkie, pinky, n.4|ˈpɪŋkɪ|
[f. pink n.2 + -ie, -y6.]
1. S. Afr. A small marine fish, either the rock grunter, Pomadasys olivaceum, of the family Pomadasyidæ, which is only a few inches long and is often used as live bait, or the red grunter, Pagellus natalensis, of the family Sparidæ, which is a food fish that may grow to about twelve inches.
1948Cape Times 19 July 1/4 The fish was brought in and gaffed... The bait taken was ‘live pinkie’. 1953J. L. B. Smith Sea Fishes S. Afr. 257 Pomadasys olivaceum... Rock-Grunter. Pinky (Natal). Ibid. 273 Pagellus natalensis... Red Grunter. Pinky. 1966K. T. Lilliecrona Salt-Water Fish & Fishing in S. Afr. i. 21 In deepish water next to the rocks, all one has to do is cast in this multi-hook trace among the fish, count twenty slowly and then retrieve to find every hook with a pinky on it.
2. The larva of a greenbottle fly of the genus Lucilia, used as a live bait in some fresh-water fishing.
1958F. Oates Coarse Fishing Baits i. 23 ‘Pinkies’ are well suited for the smaller fry which inhabit lakes and wide sluggish rivers, because being fairly heavy they can be thrown much farther than squats. 1971Angling Times 10 June 12/2 (Advt.), Wholesalers of maggots, pinkies, squats, anattoes, brandlings. 1974C. C. Trench Hist. Angling viii. 234 ‘Pinkies’ are the larvae of greenbottles, rather smaller than other maggots, pinkish in colour and used generally for small roach and dace. 1979Guardian 13 June 9/3 If you have got a box of pinkies in your fridge..you are probably..pre-occupied right now... For next Saturday is the opening day of the coarse fishing season. |