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The correct spelling is pink.
How to pronounce pink
/pɪŋk/
nounIPA: /pɪŋk/
Say it like: Pin-k
The correct spelling is pink. The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus. For example: "This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks."
Usage Examples
“This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.”
“Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.”
“My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- 2.A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- 3.A narrow boat.
- 4.A stab.
- 5.Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
verb
- 1.To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- 2.To prick with a sword.
- 3.To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
- 4.To choose; to cull; to pick out.
- 5.To become pink in color, to redden.
adjective
- 1.Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- 2.Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
- 3.Having conjunctivitis.
- 4.By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.
- 5.Relating to women or girls.
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