spinkn.¹

/spɪnk/

Forms: Middle English–1600s spynke, 1500s spynk, 1500s–1600s spinke, 1500s– spink, 1600s, 1800s spinx.

Etymology: probably imitative of the note of the bird: compare pink n.⁸

Now dialect.

a. One or other of the finches; esp. the chaffinch.Also, in Lancashire and Cumbria, the yellow-hammer.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun]

fincha700

spinkc1425

thistle-finch1589

thistlewarp1598

grosbeak1678

fringillide1853

thistle-bird1872

thistle-feeder1904

spinkie1911

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla coelebs (chaffinch)

spinkc1425

chaffinchc1440

sheld-apple1544

shilfa1684

guinet1725

wheat-bird1747

piefinch1779

scobby1800

beech-finch1815

pink1816

twink1816

whitewing1854

spinkie1911

c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 640 Hic rostellus, spynke.

1483 Cath. Angl. 355/2 A Spynke.., spinx.

a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. B.ii^v The larke with his longe to The spynke and y^e martynet also.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. lv. 886 The spinke is a very beautifull and melodious birde, but all spinkes haue not one and the same tunes.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 175 The Spinck, the Linote, and the Gold-Finch fill All the fresh Aire with their sweet warbles shrill.

1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. ii. iii. 468 Like a summer flye or Spinxes winges, or a raigne bow of all colours.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xiv. 94 The little bird called a spink or chaffinch.

1767 W. Harte Amaranth 186 The spink chaunts sweetest in a hedge of thorns.

1787 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. I. 165 The Chaffinch..called by some..Spink, from its cry.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 385 Spinx, the chaffinch.

1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 341 Collops of hare, with roast spinks rare.

†b. Scottish. Used as an abusive epithet. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused

warlockOE

swinec1175

beastc1225

wolf's-fista1300

avetrolc1300

congeonc1300

dirtc1300

slimec1315

snipec1325

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misbegetc1330

sorrowa1350

shrew1362

jordan1377

wirlingc1390

frog?a1400

warianglea1400

wretcha1400

horcop14..

turdc1400

callet1415

lotterela1450

paddock?a1475

souter1478

chuff?a1500

langbain?c1500

cockatrice1508

sow1508

spink1508

wilrone1508

rook?a1513

streaker?a1513

dirt-dauber?1518

marmoset1523

babiona1529

poll-hatcheta1529

bear-wolf1542

misbegotten1546

pig1546

excrement1561

mamzer1562

chuff-cat1563

varlet1566

toada1568

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spider1568

rat1571

bull-beef1573

mole-catcher1573

suppository1573

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spider-catcher1579

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roita1585

stickdirta1585

dogfish1589

Poor John1589

dog's facec1590

tar-boxa1592

baboon1592

pot-hunter1592

venom1592

porcupine1594

lick-fingers1595

mouldychaps1595

tripe1595

conundrum1596

fat-guts1598

thornback1599

land-rat1600

midriff1600

stinkardc1600

Tartar1600

tumbril1601

lobster1602

pilcher1602

windfucker?1602

stinker1607

hog rubber1611

shad1612

splay-foot1612

tim1612

whit1612

verdugo1616

renegado1622

fish-facea1625

flea-trapa1625

hound's head1633

mulligrub1633

nightmare1633

toad's-guts1634

bitch-baby1638

shagamuffin1642

shit-breech1648

shitabed1653

snite1653

pissabed1672

bastard1675

swab1687

tar-barrel1695

runt1699

fat-face1740

shit-sack1769

vagabond1842

shick-shack1847

soor1848

b1851

stink-pot1854

molie1871

pig-dog1871

schweinhund1871

wind-sucker1880

fucker1893

cocksucker1894

wart1896

so-and-so1897

swine-hound1899

motherfucker1918

S.O.B.1918

twat1922

mong1926

mucker1929

basket1936

cowson1936

zombie1936

meatball1937

shower1943

chickenshit1945

mugger1945

motherferyer1946

hooer1952

morpion1954

mother1955

mother-raper1959

louser1960

effer1961

salaud1962

gunk1964

scunge1967

1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 218 Spynk, sink wyth stynk ad Tertera Termagorum.

2. With distinguishing prefix, as herring spink, the golden-crested wren; †mountain spink, the mountain finch or brambling. Also goldspink n.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla montifringilla (brambling)

brambling1570

mountain spink1611

bramble1674

mountain finch1678

snow-finch1781

snow-hammer1802

snow-lark1832

cock of the North1834

furze-chucker1847

bramble-finch1865

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Regulus > regulus regulus (goldcrest)

yellowbird1625

regulus1750

basilisk1753

marigold bird1772

nettle creeper1772

goldcrest1819

marigold finch1828

kinglet1835

woodcock pilot1871

thumb bird1885

tot-o'er-seas1885

herring spink1906

pope's eye1965

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Passe de bois, the little brambling, or mountaine Spinke.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 21 July 13/1 By the fisher~men of the North Sea these little birds are known as ‘herring spinks’.

3. Used to imitate or represent the characteristic note or cry of certain birds. (Usually with repetition.)

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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [interjection] > imitation of call of bird

cockc1405

jug, jug1523

pewewea1525

te-whita1529

twit1602

sweet-sweet1606

weet-weet1808

weet1863

whee-oh1892

spink1898

tweet1992

1898 R. Kearton Wild Life at Home 82 Some tantalising accident scared her off with an angry ‘spink, spink, spink’.

1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 195 Here..the stone-chats cried ‘Spink! spink! spink!’

Derivatives

spink v. (intransitive) to utter the note ‘spink’.

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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > make other type of sound

babblec1450

jugle1576

wail1595

jug1657

spink1892

1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 103 He spinks, and chatters, and vibrates his little quill.

1898 R. Kearton Wild Life at Home 54 [The young blackbirds] ‘spink, spink, spinked’ as loudly and angrily as if a cat had intruded itself upon them.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

spinkn.²

Etymology: Related to Low German spinke, spinkel freckle, spinkel a speckled cow, spinkelt speckled, spinkeln to glitter.

northern dialect.

†1. A spot or marking of a different colour on cattle. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > colour or markings

spink1550

lear1601

star1697

1550–1 in York Wills (1902) VI. 306 Too blake whies, one with a whyte spynke of the backe.

2. (See quot. 1829.)

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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > spark or glittering light

sprankle1398

sparkle1490

spunkc1540

sparka1542

scintil1599

glitter1602

star1609

stricture1628

spinther1641

scintillation1646

fanglea1657

scintilla1661

sparkleta1687

twinkle1689

spangle1821

spink1829

crown jewel1851

twink1870

peep1882

1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Spink, a spark of fire or light.

1870 Gibson Up-Weardale Gloss. (E.D.D.) Not a spink of light.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

spinkn.³

Etymology: Of obscure origin.

Scottish and northern.

The cuckoo-flower or lady-smock, Cardamine pratensis. Frequently erroneously defined as ‘a pink’ (Jamieson, 1808), or confused with other plants, as the primrose or polyanthus.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers

garden rocket1548

queen's gillyflower1573

cuckoo-flower1578

damask violet1578

dame's-violet1578

rogue's gilliflower1578

wild passerage1578

lady's smock1593

Canterbury bells1597

close-sciences1597

sea stock-gillyflower1597

cardamine1609

melancholic gentleman1629

melancholy gentleman1629

Whitsun gilliflower1656

Hesperis1666

rocket1731

queen's violet1733

queen's July-flower1760

Virginian stock1760

spinka1774

damewort1776

virgin-stock1786

pink1818

sea-stock1849

clown's mustard1861

rock beauty1870

milksile-

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 139 Or can our flow'rs at ten hours bell The gowan or the spink excell?

1806 A. Douglas Poems 99 Countless spinks an' daisies springin, Gaily deckt ilk vale an' hill.

1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 9 Dear daffodillies, Kingcups and spinks, and livelie lillies.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

† spinkadj.

Etymology: Compare spink n.²

Obsolete.

= spinked adj.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [adjective] > having particular markings

hawked?a1513

scored1535

tailed1539

rigged1555

spink1558

spanged1582

spinked1588

wanded1713

finched1786

sparky1787

finch-backed1790

sheeted1834

the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [adjective] > speckling > speckled

freckledc1380

specked1382

specky1382

splecked1382

peckleda1400

speckleda1400

pleckedc1410

frecknyc1440

sparkled1480

spurtled1513

sprittleda1522

spreckled1535

speckle1536

pickled1552

spink1558

bespecked1565

spanged1582

spinked1588

spangled1590

dotted1601

bespeckled1607

peppery1610

peppered1694

fleckled1700

spankled1703

speckly1705

pounced1727

punctulateda1728

dotty1795

punctulate1845

naevose1847

peckly1859

polka-dotted1872

stippled1876

oatmeal1880

guttulate1887

naevous1890

stipply1892

thrush-breast1896

skittery1955

1558 in Archæol. Jrnl. 5 316 I gyve to Isabell Carter one spynke oxe.

1618–9 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) II. 54 A brandid spink cow.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

n.¹c1425

n.²1550

n.³a1774

adj.1558

单词	spink
释义	spinkn.¹ /spɪnk/ Forms: Middle English–1600s spynke, 1500s spynk, 1500s–1600s spinke, 1500s– spink, 1600s, 1800s spinx. Etymology: probably imitative of the note of the bird: compare pink n.⁸ Now dialect. 1. a. One or other of the finches; esp. the chaffinch.Also, in Lancashire and Cumbria, the yellow-hammer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] fincha700 spinkc1425 thistle-finch1589 thistlewarp1598 grosbeak1678 fringillide1853 thistle-bird1872 thistle-feeder1904 spinkie1911 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla coelebs (chaffinch) spinkc1425 chaffinchc1440 sheld-apple1544 shilfa1684 guinet1725 wheat-bird1747 piefinch1779 scobby1800 beech-finch1815 pink1816 twink1816 whitewing1854 spinkie1911 c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 640 Hic rostellus, spynke. 1483 Cath. Angl. 355/2 A Spynke.., spinx. a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. B.ii^v The larke with his longe to The spynke and y^e martynet also. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. lv. 886 The spinke is a very beautifull and melodious birde, but all spinkes haue not one and the same tunes. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 175 The Spinck, the Linote, and the Gold-Finch fill All the fresh Aire with their sweet warbles shrill. 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. ii. iii. 468 Like a summer flye or Spinxes winges, or a raigne bow of all colours. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xiv. 94 The little bird called a spink or chaffinch. 1767 W. Harte Amaranth 186 The spink chaunts sweetest in a hedge of thorns. 1787 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. I. 165 The Chaffinch..called by some..Spink, from its cry. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 385 Spinx, the chaffinch. 1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 341 Collops of hare, with roast spinks rare. †b. Scottish. Used as an abusive epithet. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused warlockOE swinec1175 beastc1225 wolf's-fista1300 avetrolc1300 congeonc1300 dirtc1300 slimec1315 snipec1325 lurdanc1330 misbegetc1330 sorrowa1350 shrew1362 jordan1377 wirlingc1390 frog?a1400 warianglea1400 wretcha1400 horcop14.. turdc1400 callet1415 lotterela1450 paddock?a1475 souter1478 chuff?a1500 langbain?c1500 cockatrice1508 sow1508 spink1508 wilrone1508 rook?a1513 streaker?a1513 dirt-dauber?1518 marmoset1523 babiona1529 poll-hatcheta1529 bear-wolf1542 misbegotten1546 pig1546 excrement1561 mamzer1562 chuff-cat1563 varlet1566 toada1568 mandrake1568 spider1568 rat1571 bull-beef1573 mole-catcher1573 suppository1573 curtal1578 spider-catcher1579 mongrela1585 roita1585 stickdirta1585 dogfish1589 Poor John1589 dog's facec1590 tar-boxa1592 baboon1592 pot-hunter1592 venom1592 porcupine1594 lick-fingers1595 mouldychaps1595 tripe1595 conundrum1596 fat-guts1598 thornback1599 land-rat1600 midriff1600 stinkardc1600 Tartar1600 tumbril1601 lobster1602 pilcher1602 windfucker?1602 stinker1607 hog rubber1611 shad1612 splay-foot1612 tim1612 whit1612 verdugo1616 renegado1622 fish-facea1625 flea-trapa1625 hound's head1633 mulligrub1633 nightmare1633 toad's-guts1634 bitch-baby1638 shagamuffin1642 shit-breech1648 shitabed1653 snite1653 pissabed1672 bastard1675 swab1687 tar-barrel1695 runt1699 fat-face1740 shit-sack1769 vagabond1842 shick-shack1847 soor1848 b1851 stink-pot1854 molie1871 pig-dog1871 schweinhund1871 wind-sucker1880 fucker1893 cocksucker1894 wart1896 so-and-so1897 swine-hound1899 motherfucker1918 S.O.B.1918 twat1922 mong1926 mucker1929 basket1936 cowson1936 zombie1936 meatball1937 shower1943 chickenshit1945 mugger1945 motherferyer1946 hooer1952 morpion1954 mother1955 mother-raper1959 louser1960 effer1961 salaud1962 gunk1964 scunge1967 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 218 Spynk, sink wyth stynk ad Tertera Termagorum. 2. With distinguishing prefix, as herring spink, the golden-crested wren; †mountain spink, the mountain finch or brambling. Also goldspink n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla montifringilla (brambling) brambling1570 mountain spink1611 bramble1674 mountain finch1678 snow-finch1781 snow-hammer1802 snow-lark1832 cock of the North1834 furze-chucker1847 bramble-finch1865 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Regulus > regulus regulus (goldcrest) yellowbird1625 regulus1750 basilisk1753 marigold bird1772 nettle creeper1772 goldcrest1819 marigold finch1828 kinglet1835 woodcock pilot1871 thumb bird1885 tot-o'er-seas1885 herring spink1906 pope's eye1965 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Passe de bois, the little brambling, or mountaine Spinke. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 21 July 13/1 By the fisher~men of the North Sea these little birds are known as ‘herring spinks’. 3. Used to imitate or represent the characteristic note or cry of certain birds. (Usually with repetition.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [interjection] > imitation of call of bird cockc1405 jug, jug1523 pewewea1525 te-whita1529 twit1602 sweet-sweet1606 weet-weet1808 weet1863 whee-oh1892 spink1898 tweet1992 1898 R. Kearton Wild Life at Home 82 Some tantalising accident scared her off with an angry ‘spink, spink, spink’. 1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 195 Here..the stone-chats cried ‘Spink! spink! spink!’ Derivatives spink v. (intransitive) to utter the note ‘spink’. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > make other type of sound babblec1450 jugle1576 wail1595 jug1657 spink1892 1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 103 He spinks, and chatters, and vibrates his little quill. 1898 R. Kearton Wild Life at Home 54 [The young blackbirds] ‘spink, spink, spinked’ as loudly and angrily as if a cat had intruded itself upon them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). spinkn.² Etymology: Related to Low German spinke, spinkel freckle, spinkel a speckled cow, spinkelt speckled, spinkeln to glitter. northern dialect. †1. A spot or marking of a different colour on cattle. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > colour or markings spink1550 lear1601 star1697 1550–1 in York Wills (1902) VI. 306 Too blake whies, one with a whyte spynke of the backe. 2. (See quot. 1829.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > spark or glittering light sprankle1398 sparkle1490 spunkc1540 sparka1542 scintil1599 glitter1602 star1609 stricture1628 spinther1641 scintillation1646 fanglea1657 scintilla1661 sparkleta1687 twinkle1689 spangle1821 spink1829 crown jewel1851 twink1870 peep1882 1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Spink, a spark of fire or light. 1870 Gibson Up-Weardale Gloss. (E.D.D.) Not a spink of light. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). spinkn.³ Etymology: Of obscure origin. Scottish and northern. The cuckoo-flower or lady-smock, Cardamine pratensis. Frequently erroneously defined as ‘a pink’ (Jamieson, 1808), or confused with other plants, as the primrose or polyanthus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers garden rocket1548 queen's gillyflower1573 cuckoo-flower1578 damask violet1578 dame's-violet1578 rogue's gilliflower1578 wild passerage1578 lady's smock1593 Canterbury bells1597 close-sciences1597 sea stock-gillyflower1597 cardamine1609 melancholic gentleman1629 melancholy gentleman1629 Whitsun gilliflower1656 Hesperis1666 rocket1731 queen's violet1733 queen's July-flower1760 Virginian stock1760 spinka1774 damewort1776 virgin-stock1786 pink1818 sea-stock1849 clown's mustard1861 rock beauty1870 milksile- a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 139 Or can our flow'rs at ten hours bell The gowan or the spink excell? 1806 A. Douglas Poems 99 Countless spinks an' daisies springin, Gaily deckt ilk vale an' hill. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 9 Dear daffodillies, Kingcups and spinks, and livelie lillies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † spinkadj. Etymology: Compare spink n.² Obsolete. = spinked adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [adjective] > having particular markings hawked?a1513 scored1535 tailed1539 rigged1555 spink1558 spanged1582 spinked1588 wanded1713 finched1786 sparky1787 finch-backed1790 sheeted1834 the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [adjective] > speckling > speckled freckledc1380 specked1382 specky1382 splecked1382 peckleda1400 speckleda1400 pleckedc1410 frecknyc1440 sparkled1480 spurtled1513 sprittleda1522 spreckled1535 speckle1536 pickled1552 spink1558 bespecked1565 spanged1582 spinked1588 spangled1590 dotted1601 bespeckled1607 peppery1610 peppered1694 fleckled1700 spankled1703 speckly1705 pounced1727 punctulateda1728 dotty1795 punctulate1845 naevose1847 peckly1859 polka-dotted1872 stippled1876 oatmeal1880 guttulate1887 naevous1890 stipply1892 thrush-breast1896 skittery1955 1558 in Archæol. Jrnl. 5 316 I gyve to Isabell Carter one spynke oxe. 1618–9 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) II. 54 A brandid spink cow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹c1425n.²1550n.³a1774adj.1558
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