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pink

The correct spelling is pink.

How to pronounce pink

/pɪŋk/
noun

IPA: /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. 1.The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
  2. 2.A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
  3. 3.A narrow boat.
  4. 4.A stab.
  5. 5.Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.

verb

  1. 1.To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
  2. 2.To prick with a sword.
  3. 3.To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
  4. 4.To choose; to cull; to pick out.
  5. 5.To become pink in color, to redden.

adjective

  1. 1.Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
  2. 2.Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
  3. 3.Having conjunctivitis.
  4. 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. 5.Relating to women or girls.

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