bink
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɪŋk
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English bink, binke, variants of Middle English benk, benke, from Old English benc (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. More at bench.
Noun edit
bink (plural binks)
- (UK, Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A bench.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bink”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bink (plural binks)
- A pacifier.
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Romani beng, from Sanskrit व्यङ्ग (vyaṅga).[1][2]
Originally Bargoens, attested since 1731.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bink m (plural binken, diminutive binkje n)
- A muscular, stout, or tough man.
- Synonym: bikkel
- 2011, Harlan Coben, Levenslijn (Myron Bolitar series), tr. by Martin Jansen in de Wal, Meulenhoff Boekerij (publ.).
- Myron Bolitar, de stoere bink met zijn stellige uitspraken.
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Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
- ^ de Vries, Jan (1971) Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
Scots edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English benk, from Old English benċ, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Cognate with English bench.
Noun edit
bink (plural binks)
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bink (plural binks)
- (Hawick) Alternative form of byke