pinkien.2
/ˈpɪŋki/, U.S. /ˈpɪŋki/ Chiefly North American. Now historical.
A small sailing vessel, usually having a narrow, pointed stern; = pink n.2 a.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > pink
pink1471
sword-pink1614
pinkie1840
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > other types of fishing vessel
spindlers-boat1243
manfare1326
stall boat1328
dogger1338
hackboat1344
coble1493
peter-boat1540
monger1558
trimboat1558
shotter1580
crab-skuit1614
fly-boat1614
cantera1642
dogger-boat1646
cag1666
yawl1670
barca-longa1681
hogboat1784
fishing-smack1785
hooker1801
hatch-boat1828
pinkie1840
fishing-bark1841
pookhaun1851
garookuh1855
jigger1860
fisher-bark1862
fisher-keel1870
Norwegian1872
scaf1877
mule coble1883
mule1884
Zulu1884
novy1885
tosher1885
skipjack1887
fleeter1888
fishing-float1893
rodney1895
mutton-ham boat1899
nobby1899
sinagot1927
sport fisherman1937
sport fisher1940
ski-boat1964
belly boat1976
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of
sedge-boat1336
shout1395
scout1419
pink1471
punt-boatc1500
palander1524
pram1531
punt1556
bark1598
sword-pink1614
pont1631
schuit1666
pontoon1681
bateau1711
battoe1711
flight1769
scow1780
keel-boat1786
ferry flat1805
ark1809
panga1811
mackinaw boat1812
mudboat1824
pinkie1840
mackinaw1842
sharpie1860
sculling float1874
pass-boat1875
sled1884
scow sloop1885
sharp1891
johnboat1894
ballahoo1902
pram1929
goelette1948
1840 Niles' Nat. Reg. 15 Aug. 376/3 Chebacco boats and small schooners are known to him as ‘pinkies’, ‘pogies’, and ‘jiggers’.
1843 Knickerbocker 22 187 The ‘pinkie’ is a schooner rigged craft,..sharp at both ends, a short peak running up aft, and designed for a chasing sea.
1882 G. L. Davis in Fisherman's Own Bk. 40 They were the old style pinkey, without bowsprit or shrouds, with two masts and hempen sails.
1948 Sat. Evening Post 9 Oct. 140/3 In addition to the Morgan and Conrad, several smaller craft have been acquired, including the pinkie Regina M.
1950 R. 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.
1980 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 27 June (Home Forum section) 20 These handy and trusty small work-boats developed into the down-east schooners that came later—the Marblehead, the chebacco, the dogbody, the pinkie.
Compounds
C1. † pinkie fleet n. Obsolete
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1873 G. H. Procter Fisherman's Mem. & Rec. Bk. 72 Uncle Charlie's first remembrance was of the pinkey fleet.
pinkie schooner n.
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1907 News (Frederick, Maryland) 24 July 3/4 Commander Robert E. Peary..has purchased..the ancient pinky schooner Mary.
1994 T. C. Gillmer Hist. Working Watercraft (ed. 2) vi. 221 On the New England coast the old heel-tapper fishing schooners gave way to the faster and seaworthy pinky schooners.
C2.
pinkie-stern n. and adj. (a) n. a small vessel having a narrow stern; (b) adj. narrow-sterned.
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1866 L. Nelson in Galaxy 1 Nov. 441 The ugly bows of the stranger were just astern of us. ‘That's a Pinkiestarn,’ volunteered Prince Lutin.
1903 N.Y. Tribune 25 Oct. 14 On another occasion the Houghton ran into a pinkey-stern schooner.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pinkien.3
/ˈpɪŋki/, U.S. /ˈpɪŋki/ I. Something pink or reddish in colour.
1. slang (chiefly Australian and Newfoundland). Cheap or home-made alcoholic drink, esp. red wine.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > cheap or inferior wine
drum-winea1640
red ink1849
Gladstone (claret)1864
pinkie1897
dago red1906
pinard1917
ink1918
plonk1927
grocer's Graves1931
grocer's wine1931
nelly1941
Red Ned1941
vaaljapie1945
purple death1947
grocer's sherry1958
papsak2004
1897 Session 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.
1935 K. 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.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. 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.
1986 Daily Tel. 3 Feb. 5/1 [In Newfoundland] ‘bangbelly’ is a heavy boiled pudding;..‘pinky’, a cheap wine.
2. slang (originally and chiefly in African-American usage). A white person, esp. a woman; a light-skinned black woman. Cf. pink n.5 10. Usually derogatory.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun]
white mana1398
Christian1622
European1666
white-face1684
long knife1784
buckra1794
sahib1796
white-skin1803
whitey1811
Pakeha1817
papalagi1817
paleface1823
whitefellow1826
Abelungu1836
haole1843
gringo1849
lightiea1855
umlungu1859
mzungu1860
heaven-burster1861
ladino1877
mooniasc1880
Conchy Joe1888
béké1889
ofay1899
ridge runner1904
Ngati Pakeha1905
kelch1912
pink1913
leucoderm1924
fay1927
Mr Charlie1928
pinkie1935
devil1938
wonk1938
oaf1941
grey1943
paddy1945
Caucasoid1956
Jumble1957
Caucasian1958
white boy1958
pinko-grey1964
honky1967
toubab1976
palagi1977
1935 Amer. Speech 10 288/2 Pinkie, a very attractive light-skinned colored girl.
1967 Observer 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’.
1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 91 Pinky.., Afro-American girl who looks white.
2001 T. Parsons One for my Baby xxxviii. 311 We have all deserted him. All the big-nosed pinkies with good intentions. He is as alone as the day I first saw him.
3. South African. Either of two marine fishes, the pink-coloured red grunter, Pagellus natalensis (family Sparidae), an edible fish, and (perhaps by confusion) the small greenish rock grunter, Pomadasys olivaceum (family Pomadasyidae), which is often used as live bait.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Pagellus
breama1475
steenbras1791
pinkie1948
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Pomadysidae (grunts) > member of
porgy1725
porkfish1735
margate1933
pinkie1948
1948 Cape Times 19 July 1/4 The fish was brought in and gaffed... The bait taken was ‘live pinkie’.
1953 J. L. B. Smith Sea Fishes S. Afr. 257 Pomadasys olivaceum... Rock-Grunter. Pinky (Natal).
1966 K. T. Lilliecrona Salt-water Fish & Fishing S. Afr. i. 21 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.
1993 in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) at Steentjie A number of small or unsized species, including the sand-soldier.., the pinky..and the steentjie.
4. Angling. The pinkish maggot of a greenbottle fly (genus Lucilia), used as bait in coarse fishing.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > member of genus Lucilia (sheep blowfly) > larvae of or pinkies
pinkie1958
1958 F. Oates Coarse Fishing Baits i. 23 ‘Pinkies’ are well suited for the smaller fry which inhabit lakes and wide sluggish rivers.
1979 Guardian 13 June 9/3 If you have got a box of pinkies in your fridge..you are probably..pre-occupied right now.
1992 Angling Times 22 Apr. 6/5 Skimmers and bream showing on Gold Lake to groundbait feeder or pole with pinkie and red maggot.
II. Something having qualities associated with the colour pink.
5. colloquial (usually derogatory). A person whose political views are left of centre; = pink n.5 13, pinko n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the left > radicalism > adherent(s) of
Jacobin1793
radical reformer1795
rad1820
radical1822
pink1921
pinko1930
pinkie1946
Young Turk1948
New Lefter1960
New Leftist1967
1946 Chicago Sunday Tribune 4 Aug. f10/2 I have..more respect for the robust Communist who proclaims his stand..than I have for those milk and water little pinkies who get an intellectual thrill basking in the rosy penumbra of Red revolution while living comfortably on..some capitalist endowment.
1973 Nation 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.
1995 Romantic Rev. 86 Is he indulging in a parody of the idiom of left-wing critics (Wyndham Lewis's ‘pinkies’)?
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pinkieadj.n.1
/ˈpɪŋki/, U.S. /ˈpɪŋki/ A. adj.
Chiefly Scottish. Small, tiny. Of the eyes: narrow, winking, half-shut. Cf. pink n.5, pinkany n. Sc. National Dict. at pink records this sense as still in use in Lothian in 1965.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective]
smallOE
littleOE
litec1275
a little wightc1275
petitc1390
weea1525
pusill1599
slender1610
lile1633
scantling1652
piccaninny1707
pinkie1718
insignificant1748
baby1750
leetle1755
tiddy1781
bit1786
inconsiderable1796
itty1798
peerie1808
tittya1825
titty-tottya1825
ickle1846
tiddly1868
peewee1877
lil1881
shirttail1881
inextensive1890
puny1898
liddle1906
pint-sized1921
pint-size1925
peedie1929
tenas1935
itsy-bitsy1938
itty-bitty1940
titchy1950
scrappy1985
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 16 Meg Wallet wi her pinky Eeen, Gart Lawrie's Heart-strings dirle.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Pinkie, a term applied to small eyes.
1818 W. Midford Coll. Songs 31 in Eng. Dial. Dict. A bussy-tailed pinkey wee Frenchman.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Pinkie Een, eyes that are narrow and long, and that seem half closed.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 235 A pinkie bairn.
B. n.1
1. Scottish. Something very small or insignificant; a tiny thing. Now rare except in sense B. 2.
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1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Pinkie, the smallest candle that is made.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 235 Pinkie, anything very small.
2. colloquial (originally Scottish). The little finger. Also (occasionally): the little toe.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > little finger
ear-fingerOE
least fingerOE
little fingerOE
little manc1300
pinkie1808
minimus1881
auricular-
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Pinkie, the little finger; a term mostly used by children, or in talking to them.
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch i. 12 His pinkie was hacked off by a dragoon.
1898 J. Paton Castlebraes ix. 297 Raither..than lift yae wee pinkie tae save that Deevilish man.
1935 J. Corrie Income 11 Then the pinkie took sair, and puir Sandy was left wi' a fit without ony taes.
1948 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 15 Mar. 17/4 I grip the ball with my thumb and pinky.
1965 E. 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.
1973 J. Marks Mick Jagger (1974) 11 As for Mick, he splashes on some fragrance and checks his eyeliner with his pinkie.
2002 A. Phillips Prague vii. 323 He brushed the wax crumbs away with speedy sweeps of his right pinkie.
Compounds
C1. Compounds of the adjective.† pinkie-eyed adj. Obsolete rare having small, winking, or half-shut eyes.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having
goggle-eyedc1384
well-eyed1483
pink-eyed1519
hollow-eyeda1529
small-eyed1555
great-eyed1558
bird-eyed1564
out-eyed1570
large-eyed1575
full-eyed1581
bright-eyed1590
wall-eyed1590
beetle-eyed1594
fire-eyed?1594
young-eyed1600
open-eyed1601
soft-eyed1606
narrow-eyed1607
broad-eyed?1611
saucer-eyed1612
ox-eyed1621
pig-eyed1655
glare-eyed1683
pit-eyed1696
dove-eyed1717
laughing-eyed1784
almond1786
wide-eyed1789
moon-eyed1790
big-eyed1792
gooseberry-eyed1796
red-eyed1800
unsealed1800
screw-eyed1810
starry-eyed1818
pinkie-eyed1824
pop-eyed1830
bead-eyed1835
fishy-eyed1836
almond-eyed1849
boopic1854
sharp-set1865
bug-eyed1872
beady-eyed1873
bias-eyed1877
blank-eyed1881
gape-eyed1889
glass-eyed1889
stone-eyed1890
pie-eyed1900
slitty-eyed1908
steely-eyed1964
megalopic1985
1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance viii A long-chinned pinky-eyed female.
pinkie-eyed John n. English regional = pink-eyed John n. at pink-eyed adj.1 Compounds.
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1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 111 Why it's a small Pinky-eyed John.
C2. Compounds of the noun. Chiefly North American.
pinkie finger n.
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1896 J. M. Barrie Sentimental Tommy ii. 16 Never again should his pinkie finger go through that warm hole.
1993 D. Coyle Hardball i. i. 21 ‘Do not extend your index and pinkie fingers in the traditional two-out signal’, he announced at one of the first coaches' meetings.
pinkie knuckle n.
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1950 J. Dempsey Championship Fighting 34 You might call that pinky knuckle the exit of your power line.
2004 Houston (Texas) Press (Nexis) 19 Feb. (News section) A long scar that curls around the pinky knuckle of his right hand.
pinkie ring n.
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1894 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 15 Nov. 6/2 A pinky ring on her right hand set with a catseye.
1953 Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil 5 Jan. 12/1 Paris jeweler Mauboussin has designed this pinky ring.
1995 Toronto Star 14 Sept. b1 He drove a Cadillac Eldorado, wore a diamond pinkie ring, scalped football tickets.
pinkie toe n.
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1864 ‘Aunt Fanny’ All Sorts Pop-guns III. 117 Oh! to see her..Splash the water all around her, Laugh, and kick her pinky toes!
1930 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 22 Dec. 7/1 Pulling off his slipper, he rubbed his little pinkie toe, the one that hurt him most.
1994 J. Kelman How Late it Was 32 These shoes, bloody terrible, the wee pinky toes felt like they had lumps on them, like snailbacks or something.
2015 Sun (Nexis) 28 Mar. (Sport section) 67 I broke my pinkie toe on my right foot—not even a funny story, just banging it on a table.
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