pink
A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
Noun 4 meanings
A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
“My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.”
Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
“This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.”
A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.
“Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.”
Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
Adjective 4 meanings
Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
Having conjunctivitis.
By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
Verb 4 meanings
To become pink in color, to redden.
To turn (something) pink.
To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
Etymology
Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“to blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked. An earlier word for similar flesh-like colors, mostly displaced by pink, was incarnation ([1300s]; see Etymonline) and carnation.
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PINK at a glance
PINK has 4 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (P 3 + I 1 + N 1 + K 5) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,842 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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