Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of a pink color; somewhat pink.
- Winking; blinking; pink-eyed.
- n. A narrow-sterned boat; a pink Also pinkie.
- Of eyes, narrow; drooping.
- Small, in general; very small: as, a pinky ring; the pinky finger.
- n. The little finger.
Wiktionary
- n. The smallest finger or toe of a hand or foot.
- adj. Pinkish.
- n. uncountable, historical, slang, Australia Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
- n. A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.
- n. offensive, slang, ethnic slur A white person.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) See 1st pink.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the finger farthest from the thumb
Etymologies
- pink + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Nosal also said Saturday the tip of his pinky is starting to grow back.”
The Washington Post: Virginia Tech progress reports: offensive line
“And observe the pinky is posied to show he is a trooper of impecable manners.”
“Now, assuming that the position of a pinky is a highly accurate predictor of shooting ability, and that skilled players know this on some level, have they also learned to get their pinkies into the right position when they shoot?”
“The Maid of the Mist was stuck on ground, so with a little push of my fingers (not my pinky, that is solely reserved for afternoon yea), I launched the boat away from land and into the Niagara gorge.”
“Bethany and her husband said their "I do's" over a pinky swear because, as she said, "you NEVER break a pinky promise.”
“Dr.J. J.seph Kim, president and CEO, stated, "Our development team has been working diligently to bring about a 'pinky'-sized clinic-ready device.”
“Unfortunately, so adept is Fat Cyclist at contest curation and so slow am I at blogging that, before I could even put finger to keyboard I type with one finger--you know it as the "pinky," I call it my "special digit" to mention this, registration for the contest already filled up.”
“P.S. To the person called "pinky" in your comment you did not once say "Narf", "Zort" or "Blart" therefor, you sir, are not Pinky.”
“Mr Webb was doing something on the board but also eating a twix at the same time and oh he looked so cute, and when he eats he sticks his 'pinky' (little finger) up!”
“When I see you in winter, in furs, with your cheeks red, I think youre prettiest then, but when I see you in summer, in a straw hat and a shirtwaist and a duck skirt and white gloves and those little silver buckled slippers, and your rose-coloured parasol, and your cheeks not red but with a kind of pinky glow about them, then I see I must have been wrong about the winter!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pinky’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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color (red)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, red, descriptive, randomness )red, Red, Pink, Cloud, Salmon, Rose, Coral(Pink/Red/Dark), Cramoisy/Modena/C..., Raspberry, Rubious/Ruby, Tomato, Sanguineous/Blood and 483 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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Inky
One of those nutso navel-fluff ruzuzu lists.
Inky, stinky, kinky, pinky, dinky, minky, tiddly-winky, slinky, clinky, ratfinky, kitchen-sinky, Hinky Dinky and 59 more...
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P is for Porch Dog
My P Words
paddington, paddy wagon, paddy whack, paddywhack, paisano, pandemonium, pantaloon, pantaloons, paper tiger, papoose, parachute pants, parcel and 109 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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ABACABB
words/names from video games
ganon, doki doki, ganondorf, toadstool, bowser, dr. robotnik, link, zelda, sonic, 1 up, kid icarus, metroid and 114 more...
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The Jumblies
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to...sieve, winter, morn, stormy, round, drowned, cried, aloud, button, fig, sea, far and 113 more...
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dickcherry's drivel
the words i'm thinking with
doing, boing, going, tincture, pingback, womenswear, jounce, wrack, a, ish, beeswax, thither and 97 more...
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personal distaste
good grief, I'm getting irritable.
salvo, taboo, redoubtable, foment, intransigence, disingenuous, infarction, obviate, junta, aetiology, expedited, gerrymandering and 201 more...
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South Yorkshire medical terminology
For definitions see the source document.
"All the words and phrases included in this guide are those that have been used by patients during consultations and have been included to assi...winkle, wind pipe, willy, widgy, well, it's a nogg..., wee-wee, water, uncle sam, tuppence, tummy ache, trotters, tootsies and 123 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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on the body
palm, wrist, sternum, breast, digit, toes, philtrum, pinky, lips, tongue, palate, skin and 80 more...
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the body
foot, spine, balls, penis, vagina, pubic, clitoris, body, genitals, skeleton, eyes, hand and 29 more...
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brettl's Words
ginormous, craptastic, vernacular, beau, liminal, asymptote, surge, puerile, lascivious, puerile, super-public, flummoxed and 48 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pinky.
Telofy Thanks. Subscribed. Dec 2, 2009
marky A Cat that lives in the California Desert who does her own Web News Program. Dec 2, 2009
marky The 2nd Pac-Man Ghost (She's the Fast One). Dec 2, 2009
slivercat (n) A baby mouse. Mar 1, 2009