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▪ I. dink, n.5 slang (orig. N. Amer.).|dɪŋk|
Also Dink.
[f. as *dinky n.4]
= *dinky n.4
1987New York 12 Jan. 16/1 When a friend referred to two young professionals as ‘a couple of dinks’, it was a bit surprising... Double Income, No Kids. 1987Times on Sunday (Sydney) 22 Feb. 32/3 The gurus of advertising are..trying to find the real monied trendies who aren't wasting their time and income on children. These are DINKs, couples with Double Income No Kids. 1988N.Y. Times 28 Apr. c11/1 Working people, whether single or dinks (dual income, no kids), are meeting other suburbanites. 1990Chicago Tribune 26 Aug. (Travel Suppl.) 6/6 The DINKS..and empty-nesters now have a greater potential to travel off-season.
▪ II. dink, a.1 Sc. and north. dial.|dɪŋk|
[Origin unknown.]
Finely dressed, decked out; trim.
1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wem. 377 Him that dressit me so dink. a1550Freiris of Berwik 55 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 287 Ane fair blyth wyf he had, of ony ane, Bot scho wes sumthing dynk and dengerous. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) II. 200 As dink as a lady. a1795Burns ‘My Lady's Gown’, My lady's dink, my lady's drest, The flower and fancy o' the west. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxv, The mechanic, in his leather apron, elbowed the dink and dainty dame, his city mistress. 1891F. O. Morris in Morn. Post 25 July 3/6 The pied wagtail, running about so nimbly, dink and dainty, over the lawn.
Hence ˈdinkly adv.
1788R. Galloway Poems 163 (Jam.) They stand sae dinkly, rank and file. 1871P. H. Waddell Psalm cxix. 32.
▪ III. dink, v. Sc.
[f. dink a.1]
trans. To dress finely, to deck.
1811A. Scott Poems 132 (Jam.) In braw leather boots..I dink me. 1820Scott Abbot xx, I am now too old to dink myself as a gallant to grace the bower of dames.
▪ IV. dink, n.1 Austral.|dɪŋk|
[Origin unknown.]
A ride or lift on the bar of a bicycle. Also v. trans., to give (a person) such a lift.
1934Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Sept. 20/2 The fortunate Melbourne schoolkid with a bike..is asked by his cobbers for a ‘dink’. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 25 Double-dink, to carry a second person on the top bar of a bicycle. It is also a noun. Exchangeable terms are ‘dink’, ‘donk’, and ‘double-bank’, both as verbs and nouns. 1948Coast to Coast 1947 135 The lame one who used to let me dink him home on his bicycle.
▪ V. dink, n.2 U.S.|dɪŋk|
[Imitative.]
A drop-shot in lawn tennis. Also attrib. So as v. intr. (see quot. 1942).
1939J. D. Budge On Tennis 120 Some players resent their opponent's using the drop shot, or the ‘dink’ shot as they scornfully refer to it. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §717/2 Dink, a ball that drops just beyond the net. Ibid. §717/3 Dink, to barely knock the ball over the net. 1959Times 30 June 3/3 Some delicate touch shots, cross-court and half-court—the dink as the Americans call it. Ibid. 1 Sept. 3/3 Drop shots, stop volleys and dinks were conspicuous by their absence. 1969New Yorker 14 June 45/2 Nobody in his right mind, really, would try those little dink shots he tries as often as he does. Ibid. 61/2 He will dink. He spins his first serve in more.
▪ VI. dink, n.3 U.S. Mil. slang.|dɪŋk|
[Origin unknown.]
A derogatory or contemptuous term for a Vietnamese person.
1969Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 3 Dec. 2A/4 He also criticized U.S. military training, which he said permits references to the Vietnamese as ‘gooks, dinks, or slopes’. 1970Guardian 30 July 7/5 These are not people... They are dinks and gooks and slant-eyed bastards.
▪ VII. dink, n.4 and a.2
Abbrev. of dinkum n. and a. Austral. (and N.Z.) colloq.
1906E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands viii. 92 'Twasn't fair dink t'go outside ther firm. 1939W. E. McKinlay Ways & Byways of Singing Kiwi i. 24 One of the Battalions being known as the ‘Square Dinks’ and another as the ‘Fair Dinks’. |
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