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  1. noun Any of a group of colors reddish in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation.
  2. noun Any of various plants of the genus Dianthus, such as the carnation and sweet William, often cultivated for their showy fragrant flowers.
  3. noun Any of various other plants, such as the wild pink and the moss pink.
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  • Before she left, she asked at the front desk to see the group's latest filing, an annual update known as the pink sheet, because of its color. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 01] - Baltimore Blues
  • She is distressingly fond of pink, which is all very well, but you can have too much of it. —  Eternity Ring - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 13: 1948
  • He turns a shade once known as panty-pink, which is the most blood he can summon for a blush. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
  • Here was more pink, a sugar-pink negligee and a summer dress of a deeper pink. —  Maigret's Boyhood Friend - Georges Simenon - 97
  • For those reasons the ancient capital would fall in all its magnificent splendour and the last fragment of a glorious Empire would be obliterated as the pink, the yellow, the purple and white towers crumbled- if Elric had his way and the Sea Lords were success- ful.
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  1. Origin unknown.
  2. Middle English pingen, pinken, to push, prick, from Old English pyngan, from Latin pungere; see peuk- in Indo-European roots.
  3. Middle English, from Middle Dutch pinke.

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  1. from Middle English pinken, prick; prob. a nasalized form of picken, pikken, pick, peck: see pick, peck. Cf. French piquer, prick, also pink (pierce with eyelet-holes). Pink, Middle English pink, is a dift. word from Middle English pingen, from Anglo-Saxon pyngan, from Latin pungere, prick: see pungent.
  2. from pink, v.
  3. So called as having the edges of the petals delicately pinked or jagged; from pink, v. Cf. French pince, pink, from pincer, pinch, nip: see pinch (not connected with pink). According to some, so called from the small dots, resembling eyes, on some of the species. Cf. Irish pincīn, a gilliflower.
  4. from pink, a.
  5. from Middle Dutch pincken, Dutch pinken, shut the eyes, wink, twinkle; cf. Middle Dutch pinck-oogen, wink; origin obscure. Cf. pink-eye.
  6. from Middle Dutch Pinck, Dutch pink = Middle Low German Low German pinke (later G. pinke); cf. French pinque = Spanish pinco, pinque = Portuguese pinque, from the D. or Low German; apparently the same, with loss of the initial syllable, as Middle Dutch espinck = Icelandic espingr = Swedish esping, a long boat, from Middle Dutch espe = Icelandic espi, asp, aspen-tree: see asp.
  7. Imitative; cf. spink and finch, and also pinc-pinc. Hence diminutive pinkety.
  8. Origin obscure.
  9. Detached from pink-eye, pink-eyed, and treated, especially in the diminutive pinky, as an imitative word, like dinky, etc.
 

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