kink
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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”).
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Verb edit
kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
Noun edit
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 2 edit
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.
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Noun edit
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.
Antonyms edit
- (unusual sexuality): normophilia
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Verb edit
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.
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References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “kink”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch *kinc.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kink f (plural kinken, diminutive kinkje n)
- kink (curl, twist, or bend)
- Er zat een kink in de kabel.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
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Descendants edit
Estonian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Low German schenke.
Noun edit
kink (genitive kingi, partitive kinki)
Inflection edit
Declension of kink (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | kink | kingid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | kingi | ||
genitive | 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 |
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Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate to dialectal Finnish kenkku.
Noun edit
kink (genitive kingu, partitive kinku)
Inflection edit
Declension of kink (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | kink | kingud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | kingu | ||
genitive | 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 |
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Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From ki (“who”) + -nk (“our, of ours”, possessive suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
kink
- first-person plural single-possession possessive of ki
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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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 | — |
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English kyken. Original c was misspelled, compare robunkshough (“roebuck forest”).
Verb edit
kink (simple past kinket)
References edit
- 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