propink
English
editEtymology
editBack-formation from propinquity.
Verb
editpropink (third-person singular simple present propinks, present participle propinking, simple past and past participle propinked)
- (humorous) To have the effect of propinquity with regards to closeness and familiarity leading to romantic feelings.
- 1956, Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever, published 1965, page 155:
- "May even decide to make up and be friends. You know how they say." He beckoned to the waiter. "Nothing propinks like propinquity."
- 2009, Robert Aitken, Miniatures of a Zen Master[1]:
- Some of the marriages were really quite happy. As my Nana, Florence Page Baker, used to say, "Propinquity propinks."
- 2019, Simon W. Bowmaker, When the President Calls, page 77:
- I didn't want to leave Washington because my boss, George Ball, was fond of saying that in politics nothing propinks like propinquity.'