kinkn.1
/kɪŋk/, U.S. /kɪŋk/ 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. (Originally nautical.) Also transferred of a ‘crick’ or stiffness in the neck, etc.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > curled condition or formation
crispation1626
curling1626
curl1665
kink1678
crispature1745
quirling1754
kinkle1862
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > a twist or curl in a rope
kink1678
kneck1706
dog's ear1840
dog's lug1882
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp
cramp1374
emprosthotonosa1398
spasmc1400
spasmusc1400
crickc1424
crumpa1500
misspringinga1500
spasma?1541
convulsion1585
catch1830
kink1848
tonus1891
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) 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.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Kink, a sort of twist or turn in any..rope, occasioned by its being very stiff or close-laid; or by being drawn too hastily out of the roll.
1778 Nairne in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 68 834 Where there happened to be kenks in the wire.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Kink, an entanglement in a skein.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. i. 8 Your back with a bow like a kink in a cable.
1848 Yale Literary Mag. 14 82 Come! wake up, and shake the kinks out of your land legs.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick iii. 22 I tore myself out of it in such a hurry that I gave myself a kink in the neck.
1857 M. Reid War Trail xiii. 67 Yes, there was the same negress with..the little well-oiled kinks hanging like corkscrews over her temples!
1893 G. D. Leslie Lett. to Marco xxv. 167 The clematis, tomato, and some others, form kinks in their leaf-stems, which secure the plants very effectively.
1894 S. R. Bottone Electr. Instr. Making (ed. 6) 125 Care should be taken to wind this wire evenly, closely, and without kinks.
1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Oct. 20/4 Snip Sinker..was mostly too lazy or 'ad a cronk wrist or a kink in his back when there were big guns on the board.
1962 Kenyon Rev. XXIV. 94 Don't worry about Saturday night. Play around. Work the kinks out.
1970 G. 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.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > sharpness of curve > sharp curve or bend
elbow1591
quirk1601
kink1899
1899 S. Baring-Gould Furze Bloom 27 That [wall] on the left makes a kink to respect ‘The Brothers' Grave’.
1928 L. S. Palmer Wireless Princ. & Pract. v. 132 The curve sometimes exhibits a sudden ‘kink’ or discontinuity.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai v. 74 Below the kink the street degenerates rapidly.
1971 Sunday Express (Johannesburg) 28 Mar. 7/1 A new grandstand for 2,000 spectators at the kink on the main straight.
2. figurative.
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.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim
fantasya1450
wantonness1531
humour1533
worm?a1534
will1542
toy?1545
whey-worm1548
wild worm1548
freak1563
crotchet1573
fancy1579
whim-wham1580
whirligig1589
caper1592
megrim1593
spleen1594
kicksey-winsey1599
fegary1600
humorousness1604
curiosity1605
conundrum1607
whimsy1607
windmill1612
buzza1616
capriccioa1616
quirka1616
flama1625
maggota1625
fantasticality1631
capruch1634
gimcrack1639
whimseycado1654
caprich1656
excursion1662
frisk1665
caprice1673
fita1680
grub1681
fantasque1697
whim1697
frolic1711
flight1717
whigmaleery1730
vagary1753
maddock1787
kink1803
fizgig1824
fad1834
whimmery1837
fantod1839
brain crack1853
whimsy-whamsy1871
tic1896
tick1900
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness
woodnessc1000
woodshipc1000
madshipc1225
woodc1275
woodhead1303
ragec1330
amentiaa1398
madnessa1398
frenzy?a1400
madheada1400
maddingc1400
alienation?a1425
furiosity?a1475
derverye1480
forcenery1480
furiousnessc1500
unwitness1527
unwitting1527
demencya1529
straughtness1530
insaniea1538
brainsickness1541
lunacy1541
amenty1557
distraughtness1576
dementation?1583
straughtedness1583
insanity1590
crazedness1593
bedlam1598
dementia1598
insanation1599
non compos mentis1607
distraction1609
daffinga1614
disinsanitya1625
cerebrosity1647
vecordy1656
fanaticness1662
non-sanity1675
insaneness1730
craziness1755
hydrophobia1760
vecord1788
derangement1800
vesania1800
a screw loose1810
unsoundness1825
dementedness1833
craze1841
psychosis1847
crackiness1861
feyness1873
crack1891
meshugas1898
white ant1908
crackedness1910
pottiness1933
loopiness1939
wackiness1941
screwballism1942
kink1959
1803 T. Jefferson Let. 24 Nov. in Wks. (1905) X. 52 Should the judges take a kink in their heads.
1812 T. Jefferson Let. to J. Adams 11 June Adair too had his kink. He believed all the Indians of America to be descended from the Jews.
1838 Knickerbocker Mag. 12 200 All of a sudden he got ‘a kink in his head’, which came nigh doing him an irreparable injury.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase It is useless to persuade him to go, for he has taken a kink in his head that he will not.
1844 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship (ed. 2) ii. 20 I went down to Macon to the zamination, whar I got a heap of new kinks.
1876 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 414 I have done a little towards bringing up young people without kinks.
1915 F. 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 Public Opinion 1 Aug. 104/2 Exhibiting an amazing capacity to get at the ensnarled kinks of the mind and soul.
1950 T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party ii. 120 And so you suppose you have what you call a ‘kink’?
1959 Encounter Mar. 22 Hates kissing. Undertakes most kinks..but no buggery.
1959 M. Gee in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 279 He's got a kink I reckon. He'll end up in the nuthouse.
1965 Movie Summer 44/4 The result is the story of the sexual hallucinations of a young girl..played for flat-out kink.
b. An odd but clever method of doing something; a ‘dodge’, ‘wrinkle’.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient
costOE
craftOE
custc1275
ginc1275
devicec1290
enginec1300
quaintisec1300
contrevurec1330
castc1340
knackc1369
findinga1382
wilea1400
conject14..
skiftc1400
policy?1406
subtilityc1410
policec1450
conjecturea1464
industry1477
invention1516
cunning1526
shift1530
compass1540
chevisance1548
trade1550
tour1558
fashion1562
invent?1567
expediment1571
trick1573
ingeny1588
machine1595
lock1598
contrival1602
contrivement1611
artifice1620
recipea1643
ingenuity1651
expedient1653
contrivance1661
excogitation1664
mechanism1669
expediency1683
stroke1699
spell1728
management1736
manoeuvre1769
move1794
wrinkle1817
dodge1842
jigamaree1847
quiff1881
kink1889
lurk1916
gadget1920
fastie1931
ploy1940
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 110 The hundred and one recent valuable wrinkles, dodges and kinks that float through the photographic press.
3. U.S. A human being in various slang applications.
a. A black person. Obsolete.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun]
AfriceOE
MoorOE
EthiopOE
blomana1225
Ethiopiana1325
blue mana1387
Moriana1387
black mana1398
blackamoor1525
black Morian1526
black boy1530
molen1538
Nigro1548
Nigrite1554
Negro1555
neger1568
nigger1577
blackfellow1598
Kaffir1607
black1614
thick-lipsa1616
Hubsheea1627
black African1633
blackface1704
sambo1704
Cuffee1713
Nigritian1738
fellow1753
Cuff1755
blacky1759
mungo1768
Quashie1774
darkie?1775
snowball1785
blue skin1788
Moriscan1794
sooterkin1821
nigc1832
tar-brush1835–40
Jim Crow1838
sooty1838
mokec1847
dinge1848
monkey1849
Siddi1849
dark1853
nigre1853
Negroid1860
kink1865
Sam1867
Rastus1882
schvartze1886
race man1896
possum1900
shine1908
jigaboo1909
smoke1913
golliwog1916
jazzbo1918
boogie1923
jig1924
melanoderm1924
spade1928
jit1931
Zulu1931
eight ball1932
Afro1942
nigra1944
spook1945
munt1948
Tom1956
boot1957
soul brother1957
nig-nog1959
member1962
pork chop1963
splib1964
blood1965
non-voter1966
moolinyan1967
Oreo1968
boogaloo1972
pongo1972
moolie1988
1865 J. H. Browne Four Years in Secessia xxxix. 288 ‘Coming the kink’ was to steal a negro from the country, and dispose of him in town.
1944 Amer. Speech 19 173 Kink shows an obvious allusion to the Negro's hair.
b. A criminal.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker
waryOE
wandelard1338
breakerc1384
malefactora1438
law-breakerc1440
misgovernora1449
malfetoura1450
wrongdoer1501
contravener1567
criminal1610
contravenary1614
mug1865
crook1879
outlaw1880
punter1891
kink1914
heavy man1926
crim1927
antisocial1945
villain1960
banduluc1977
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. 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.
1950 H. 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 person whose sexual preferences or behaviour is regarded as abnormal or peculiar; loosely, an eccentric, a person wearing noticeably unusual clothes, behaving in a startling manner, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sexual behaviour regarded as unconventional or unacceptable > person
pervert1856
freak1923
perv1948
secko1949
kinky1950
paraphiliac1958
paraphilic1962
prevert1962
kink1965
nonce1971
sickie1973
sicko1977
pervo1978
1965 Harper's Bazaar Jan. 54/1 His phone is ex-directory because of all the kinks who used to phone at 2 a.m.
1967 J. Morgan Involved 57 ‘He looked a real kink, you know, a regular kickster.’ ‘Educate me,’ Frankie said, ‘I want to be with you.’ ‘A nut,’ Janet explained, ‘a kink who likes going to a scene but won't participate, he gets his kicks out of watching everyone else knocking themselves out.’
1968 B. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
kinkn.2
/kɪŋk/, U.S. /kɪŋk/, Scottish English /kɪŋk/ Scottish and northern dialect.
A fit or paroxysm, as of laughter or coughing, that for the moment catches the breath.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [noun] > shortness of breath > gasping
gasping1440
sob?a1505
gaspa1529
glutting1733
kink1788
catching1873
gaspiness1883
catch1884
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 338 A ‘kink of laughter’.
1790 Morrison Poems 215 (Jam.) We value their frowns not a kink.
1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man I. xii. 311 The honest man's gane away in a kink.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Kink, keenk, a paroxysm of coughing or of laughter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
kinkv.1
/kɪŋk/, U.S. /kɪŋk/, Scottish English /kɪŋk/ Scottish and northern dialect.
intransitive. To gasp convulsively for breath, lose the breath spasmodically, as in hooping-cough or a severe fit of laughing.
a. with laughing.
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c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 171/39 Cachinnatio, ceahhetung uel cincung.
c1325 Metr. Hom. 83 Full ille bers us lah and kinc Quen apon this bischop we think.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 407 Peasse, I pray the, be still! I laghe that I kynke!
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 90 Hee laughs and kinckes like Chrysippus when he saw an asse eate figs.
1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss. Kink,..to laugh immoderately.
1894 H. Caine Manxman vi. iv. 368 The child..laughed and squealed till she ‘kinked’.
b. as in hooping-cough.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (intransitive)] > become short of breath > gasp or catch breath
gape1352
gaspa1393
to catch the aira1616
kink1691
keck1721
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 41 To Kink,..spoken of Children when their Breath is long stopped through eager crying or coughing.
1863 Mod. Yorksh. Dial. Poor child coughs till it kinks again.
1883 C. 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.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Kink, to..labour for breath, as in the whooping-cough.
1901 N.E.D. at Kink Mod. Sc. She does not kink much, she has it lightly.
Derivatives
ˈkinking n.1 and adj.1
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [adjective] > of breath: short > gasping or catching breath
kinking1607
gaspant1831
gasping1835
gaspy1860
c1050 [see sense a].
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 81 With ever-kincking vaine The bellowes of his breath he tore in twaine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
kinkv.2
/kɪŋk/, U.S. /kɪŋk/ 1. intransitive. 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.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [verb (intransitive)] > sharply
kink1697
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World ii. 17 The Line in drawing after him chanc'd to kink, or grow entangled.
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 48 Always have one, or more swivels on the line, which will prevent its kenking.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iv. 87 The running line..snarls, and kinks.
1891 H. L. Webb in Electr. in Daily Life, Making a Cable 193 Occasionally a sounding was spoiled by the wire kinking.
2. transitive. To cause to kink; to form a kink upon; to twist stiffly. Also figurative. (Usually in passive.)
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [verb (transitive)] > sharply
kink1800
1800 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 346 Arguments..such as none but a head, entangled and kinked as his is, would ever have urged.
1886 J. M. Caulfeild Seamanship Notes 4 Cable is full of turns and kinked.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 651 The shortened bowel may be kinked or twisted.
Derivatives
kinked adj. /kɪŋkt/ (also in extended use)
/kɪŋkt/ (also in extended use)ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > sharp (of curve) > sharply curved
kinkedc1865
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 250/2 That there may be no loose or ‘kinked’ places.
1966 Punch 5 Oct. 521/1 Others were delighted by the elegance of the language and the sinister kinked logic governing the behaviour of the characters.
1967 A. Hunter Gently Continental viii. 127 I am scared. I can't protect Trudi. Frieda is kinked.
1969 D. 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.
1970 D. Uhnak Ledger (1971) vii. 97 Stoner Martin massaged the back of his neck. ‘This kind of work can sure leave you kinked up.’
ˈkinking n.2 and adj.2
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > sharpness of curve > sharp curve or bend > formation of
kinking1794
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 55 Kinking, the twisting or curling of a rope, by being twisted too hard.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 489 Pyloric kinking may occur with rapid aggravation of the state.
ˈkinkable adj. liable to kink.
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1891 Daily News 24 June Garden hose..non-kinkable hose is preferred.
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- i'll be switched
- i'll be sworn
- i'll bet my hat
- i'll buy it
- i'll catch you again
- i'll catch you etc
- i'll catch you later
- i'll catch you tomorrow
- i'll eat my hat
- i'll etc be lucky
- i'll give you that
- i'll go to the bottom of our stairs
- i'll go to the foot of our stairs
- i'll have you know
- i'll i am a monkey's uncle
- i'll i'm telling the world
- i'll learn you
- i'll live
- i'll say
- i'll say so
- i'll secure you
- i'll see
- i'll see etc hanged first