See also: Hink

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hink (plural hinks)

  1. (obsolete) A reaping hook.

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  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

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hink

  1. inflection of hinken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

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hink

  1. singular imperative of hinken

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hink

  1. man

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  • Charles Wellington Furlong, The Haush And Ona, Primitive Tribes Of Tierra Del Fuego, in the Proceedings Of The Nineteenth International Congress Of Americanists (December 1915)
  • Voces en el viento: raíces lingüísticas de la Patagonia : lingüística comparativa de las lenguas aborígenes del sur del continente americano (2005): genk'e-nK 'paisano', es un derivado de un término de significado 'hombre', sólo mantenido en haush (Bridges 1948 ‹hink›, Tonelli ‹enk› 'hombre')

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Etymology 1 edit

Variant of think. From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þencan, þenċan, þenċean (to think), from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (to think, suppose, perceive), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (to think, feel, know).

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hink (third-person singular simple present hinks, present participle hinkin, simple past thought or thocht, past participle thought or thocht)

  1. (many Scots dialects) to think.

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle English *hinken, from Old English hincian (to limp, halt, hobble), from Proto-Germanic *hinkaną (to limp, hobble, be injured).

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hink

  1. (obsolete) to falter or limp.

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hink c

  1. bucket (container)
  2. (slang) alcohol, vodka

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Declension of hink 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hink hinken hinkar hinkarna
Genitive hinks hinkens hinkars hinkarnas

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