pink
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Is pink a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of pink?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.Examples: "Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion."; "Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy."countabledateduncountable
2. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.Examples: "Oh dear, he's left himself snookered behind the pink."countableuncountable
3. (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.countableslanguncountable
4. (slang) The vagina or vulva.Examples: "Then Eddie did what he calls, 'Two in the pink, one in the stink.' “I held up my right forefinger and middle finger and said, “Two.” Then I held up my ring finger and said “One. Two in the pussy, one in the ass.”"countableslanguncountable
adj (English)
1. (informal) Relating to women or girls.Examples: "pink-collar"; "pink job"informal
2. (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.Examples: "the pink economy"; "pink pound"; "pink dollar"informal
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.Examples: "The woman’s pale skin pinked as she shook her head. “No. It’s out of my budget. Come on, Sammy”"intransitive
2. (transitive) To turn (something) pink.Examples: "They are all nearly nude, pinked and bronzed by the sun."; "The rabbits, still lining the roadside, but now pinked by dawn, craned their necks to follow her departure."transitive
3. (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.Examples: "Because heating is relatively easy to perform once one is trained to do it, it can be assumed that any pink topaz from Brazil, the gem’s main modern producer, is colored more by man than nature.[…] Relatively few stones from Brazil have this trace element in enough quantity for what dealers call “pinking.”"transitive
noun (English)
1. (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.regional
2. (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.regional
noun (English)
1. (now obsolete) A narrow boat.obsolete
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.Examples: "At a great word she will her poynard draw, Looke for the pincke if once thou giue the lye."; "A freebooter’s pink, sir, three or four inches deep."; "The fellow's a shrewd fellow at a pink."obsolete
2. (obsolete) A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.Examples: "Item,..for iiil* powdringis and pinkis to the sam goune, .xij s"; "small pinks, cuts or iagges in clothes"; "Is this pinke of equall proportion to this cut?"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary