pinking
Meaning of pinking
- become pink.
Cheryl's cheeks pinked with sudden excitement
- shear (a sheep) so closely that the colour of the skin is visible.
McFowler pinked every sheep and never drew blood
mid 17th century: from pink2, the early use of the adjective being to describe the colour of the flowers of this plant.
verb, gerund or present participle- cut a scalloped or zigzag edge on.
I pinked the edge of the fabric
- decorate.
April pinked the earth with flowers
early 16th century (in the sense ‘pierce or nick slightly’): compare with Low German pinken ‘strike, peck’.
verb, gerund or present participle- (of a vehicle engine) make a series of rattling sounds as a result of over-rapid combustion of the fuel–air mixture in the cylinders.
the car was inclined to pink slightly in accelerating from a low engine speed
early 20th century: imitative.
Information about pinking
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of pinking is: pinkings.
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Hyphenation of pinking
pink-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- pinking is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of pinking
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