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- noun Plural form of
jinker .
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Examples
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But still they just keep coming, doomed infantry battalions of junior jinkers, trainee poachers, apprentice pivots, bringing with them the same old jangling excitement, the sense that maybe this time, maybe this might be The One.
Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit | Barney Ronay 2011
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Note 57: Compare this with the perception of women as "pollutants on the water" and jinkers (jinxes) in an English Newfoundland community on the northeast coast of the island described by James C. Faris in Cat Harbour: A Newfoundland Fishing Settlement (St. John's: ISER, 1972), 73.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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Happy Thanksgiving!!!!! tapps. @brewer_girl and jinkers waiting for dinner #thanksgiving
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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. said we did, that there were jinkers and sonies if you knew where to look for them.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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"By jinkers! you ar 'the fust white man that I ever crossed this ferry with who warn't jist nobody at all; an' I swar, Kur -- a-- Cap -- O dangnation!
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