kink
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English kinken, kynken, from Old English *cincian (attested in cincung), from Proto-West Germanic *kinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *kinkōną (“to laugh”), from Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock, jeer, deride”), related to Old English canc (“jeering, scorn, derision”). Cognate with Dutch kinken (“to kink, cough”).
Alternative formsEdit
VerbEdit
kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
NounEdit
kink (plural kinks)
- (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
Etymology 2Edit
From Dutch kink (“a twist or curl in a rope”)[1], from Proto-Germanic *kenk-, *keng- (“to bend, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gengʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid, weave”). Compare Middle Low German kinke (“spiral screw, coil”), Old Norse kikna (“to bend backwards, sink at the knee”), Icelandic kengur (“a bend or bight; a metal crook”). Probably related to kick.
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
kink (countable and uncountable, plural kinks)
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- 1856, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, The Sparrowgrass Papers:
- Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.
- (informal, countable or uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- 2013, Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore, page 13:
- To top it all off, Lynn is into kink. Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.
- (informal, countable) A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
- Synonym: kinkster
- 1985, John Dann MacDonald, Five Complete Travis McGee Novels, page 254:
- "What do they think you know?"
"No more than I've told you. That he's a kink. He rapes people and kills people and spends too much money and flies grass in."
- 2013, James Hadley Chase, A Can of Worms:
- “He's a kink. All I have to do is toss off my clothes and dance around his apartment while he sits and drools.”
- (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
AntonymsEdit
- (unusual sexuality): normophilia
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
tight curl, twist, or bend
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difficulty or flaw that impedes operation
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peculiarity in sexual behaviour or taste
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See alsoEdit
VerbEdit
kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
- (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
- (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to form a kink or twist
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “kink”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch *kinc.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
kink f (plural kinken, diminutive kinkje n)
- kink (curl, twist, or bend)
- Er zat een kink in de kabel.
- There was a kink in the cable.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
EstonianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Low German schenke.
NounEdit
kink (genitive kingi, partitive kinki)
InflectionEdit
Declension of kink (type riik)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | kink | kingid |
| genitive | kingi | kinkide |
| partitive | kinki | kinke / kinkisid |
| illative | kinki / kingisse | kinkidesse / kingesse |
| inessive | kingis | kinkides / kinges |
| elative | kingist | kinkidest / kingest |
| allative | kingile | kinkidele / kingele |
| adessive | kingil | kinkidel / kingel |
| ablative | kingilt | kinkidelt / kingelt |
| translative | kingiks | kinkideks / kingeks |
| terminative | kingini | kinkideni |
| essive | kingina | kinkidena |
| abessive | kingita | kinkideta |
| comitative | kingiga | kinkidega |
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate to dialectal Finnish kenkku.
NounEdit
kink (genitive kingu, partitive kinku)
InflectionEdit
Declension of kink (type riik)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | kink | kingud |
| genitive | kingu | kinkude |
| partitive | kinku | kinke / kinkusid |
| illative | kinku / kingusse | kinkudesse / kingesse |
| inessive | kingus | kinkudes / kinges |
| elative | kingust | kinkudest / kingest |
| allative | kingule | kinkudele / kingele |
| adessive | kingul | kinkudel / kingel |
| ablative | kingult | kinkudelt / kingelt |
| translative | kinguks | kinkudeks / kingeks |
| terminative | kinguni | kinkudeni |
| essive | kinguna | kinkudena |
| abessive | kinguta | kinkudeta |
| comitative | kinguga | kinkudega |
Derived termsEdit
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From ki (“who”) + -nk (“our, of ours”, possessive suffix).
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
kink
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | kink | — |
| accusative | kinket | — |
| dative | kinknek | — |
| instrumental | kinkkel | — |
| causal-final | kinkért | — |
| translative | kinkké | — |
| terminative | kinkig | — |
| essive-formal | kinkként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | kinkben | — |
| superessive | kinken | — |
| adessive | kinknél | — |
| illative | kinkbe | — |
| sublative | kinkre | — |
| allative | kinkhez | — |
| elative | kinkből | — |
| delative | kinkről | — |
| ablative | kinktől | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
kinké | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
kinkéi | — |
YolaEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
VerbEdit
kink (simple past kinket)
ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 50