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pinko-|ˈpɪŋkəʊ|
[See -o.]
Used as a combining form of pink n.4 and a.1 in pinko-grey a., of a pinkish-grey colour; spec. = white a. 4; hence as n., a ‘white’ person.
1924E. M. Forster Passage to India vii. 62 The remark that did him most harm at the club was a silly aside to the effect that the so-called white races are really pinko-grey. 1953W. G. Walter Living Brain i. 1 By brain is meant..something more than the pinko-grey jelly of the anatomist. 1961P. Mason Common Sense about Race i. iii. 49 A pinko-grey man is rather more likely than a Negro to have traces of the ridges above the eyes..so prominent in the gorilla. 1964‘M. Innes’ Money from Holme x. 68 The pinko-greys out there [sc. in Africa] aren't exactly aesthetes. 1973J. Mann Only Security xi. 142 A pinko-grey lib-lab, that's you. 1974Times 5 June 16/5 The pinko-grays, to use E. M. Forster's accurate description, were entirely safe... Britain was about to quit India. 1977T. Heald Just Desserts iii. 47 His usual pinko-grey complexion. |