Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal The little finger.
- n. Variant of pink3.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- etc. See pinky.
Wiktionary
- n. Australia, South Australia A bilby.
- n. anatomy A little finger, the finger furthest on a hand from the thumb.
- n. anatomy, less commonly A little toe, the toe furthest on a foot from the thumb toe.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the finger farthest from the thumb
Etymologies
- From Kaurna bingu. (Wiktionary)
- Probably from Dutch pinkje, diminutive of pink, little finger. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But now I’m a little sunburnt, and my left pinkie is on strike.”
““We did, and while it pains me to break a pinkie swear, the thing is…” I held the little pillow against me and told her everything—how I’d found Evan’s name in Kitty’s kitchen, how the police had found his number on Kitty’s caller ID.”
“In a rough-and-ready sports car, it might have been fine, but it lacked the kind of pinkie-in-the-air refinement the SM deserved.”
“Known as the "pinkie" form, the application expedites enrollment of pregnant women and children into the state's free health insurance programs.”
“Look at that pinkie of yours and know that its name is similar to the name of a ship filled with goods.”
“Take a black marking pen and write G-G for gris-gris on your left pinkie.”
“In the time that she makes me wait (she's finishing her pinkie toe), I think about how I could learn a thing or two from her: she with the hang-loose curls on her head and liberated legs (she's wearing cut-offs).”
“The two women are friends -- just before Rhee took the job, she made Henderson vow to a "pinkie oath" to join her at District of Columbia Public Schools -- and they share a similar educational strategy for turning around D.C. schools.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Whitmire: Why the Silence After the D.C. Firings?
“Director Jessica Lefkow says she told actresses Gwen Grastorf and Jade Wheeler that the twins had "pinkie sworn" never to talk about race.”
The Washington Post: Backstage at Washington Shakespeare Company's 'Juno and the Paycock'
“It slips its pinkie into my wife's right hand and snuggles into her face.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pinkie’.
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•Words We Use Here That Would Tick Of...
Or, Things That Get a Whole Lot More Fun With an -ie Ending.
See conversation on git, and have at it!
Edit: Many of the following are madeupical, but many are not. See als...wordie, foodie, roadie, cookie, prosie, poetrie, tunie, scriptie, democracie, pompous old gittie, funnie, hippie and 156 more...
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Australasian mammals
Australasian mammals, monotremes, anteater, duckbill, echidna, giant anteater, ornithorhynchus, platypus, porcupine, water mole, carnivorous marsu..., banded anteater and 220 more...
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bilby's once and future nicknames
brillby, Easter Bilby, Long Ears, underemployed, overpaid, knight of the rou..., spam skewerer, bilbycakes, bilbs, El bilby de la Pa..., leather ears, Miss Wordie and 165 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Andre's list
porch, tantrum, temper tantrum, act up, pushchair, fussy eater, laps, sit on a lap, stacking blocks, pull toy, waddle, cranky and 46 more...
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Rip Van Winkle
descry, chivalrous, henpecked, domestic tribulation, obsequious, conciliating, malleable, curtain lecture, termagant, uxorious, squabble, dodge and 23 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pinkie.
dontcry The painting of the girl in pink Pinkie by Thomas Lawrence. We had Pinkie and Blue Boy in the bedroom hallway of my childhood home. Dec 2, 2009
hernesheir "Pinkie toe" is sometimes used to differentiate the least foot appendage from the hand digit referred to. Sep 17, 2009
sionnach Shouldn't this page link to medicinal compound? Sep 16, 2009
bilby Wrong end! Sep 15, 2009
chained_bear ... "leathery behind"?? Sep 15, 2009
sionnach Though "Pinkie McPinkerton" does have a certain ring to it! Sep 15, 2009
reesetee *watches sionnach leave* Sep 15, 2009
sionnach Big-ears and I can have our own cartoon series - we can call it 'Pinkie and the Brain!'
No wait, that's been done already.
OK, OK. Much as it pains me to admit it, my heart isn't in it. Picking on the bilbster when he is expecting it and has a big target sign painted on his little leathery behind just isn't that much fun. Besides which, my mama raised me to be respectful to all god's critters, even marsupials with special needs.
*slinks off muttering to self - 'damn, I'm losing my touch - back in the day calumny and vituperation used to come naturally to me!'* Sep 15, 2009
reesetee *waits for sionnach* Sep 15, 2009
gangerh plinkie! Sep 14, 2009
bilby Another word for bilby, according to Wikipedia. The closest I've come to hearing it was from an Aboriginal woman, who was from the central desert region at the top of South Australia. The term she used sounded like pinkie-bobo.
I fear my life is pretty much over once sionnach gets hold of this information. Sep 14, 2009