different between gink vs dink

English

Etymology

Unknown but possibly from similar senses of kink or geck. Cf. geek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k/

Noun

gink (plural ginks)

1. (originally US slang) A guy, a fellow, especially (derogatory) a foolish, unworldly, or socially inept man.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 23:

     Adrian felt that it was he who had brought Tom into notice and popularity, that Tom was his own special creation. The silent spotty gink of the first year had been transformed into someone admired and imitated and Adrian wasn't sure how much he liked it.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:person, Thesaurus:man, Thesaurus:friend; Thesaurus:dork, Thesaurus:fool

References

• “gink, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2017

Anagrams

• King, king

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Imitative. Originally US. Attested since the 1930s.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

1. (tennis) A soft drop shot.
2. (soccer) A light chip; a chipped pass or shot

Translations

Verb

dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinking, simple past and past participle dinked)

1. (tennis) To play a soft drop shot.
2. (soccer) To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.

   The forward dinked the ball over the goalkeeper to score his first goal of the season.

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Attested since the 1930s.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

1. (Australia, colloquial) A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.

   I gave him a dink on my bike.

Verb

dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinking, simple past and past participle dinked)

1. (Australia, colloquial) To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.
   • 1947, John Lehmann (editor), The Penguin New Writing, Issue 30, page 103,

     I didn't like them at all ; only the lame one who used to let me dink him home on his bicycle.

Etymology 3

Origin unknown. Attested since the 1960s. Compare Chink, a derogatory term for a Chinese person.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

1. (US, military slang, derogatory, dated) A North Vietnamese soldier.

Etymology 4

Initialism. Originally US. Attested since the 1980s.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

1. (US) Double Income No Kids - a childless couple with two jobs.

Etymology 5

See dinkum.

Adjective

dink

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Honest, fair, true.
2. (Australia, New Zealand) Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.

Adverb

dink (not comparable)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Honestly, truly.

Noun

dink (uncountable)

1. (Australia, Northern England) Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
2. (historical, dated) A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.

Etymology 6

Origin unknown. Attested since the late nineteenth century.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

1. (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) A penis.
2. (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) A foolish person, a despised person. [from 1960s]

Etymology 7

Origin unknown. Attested in English and in Scots since the sixteenth century.

Adjective

dink (not comparable)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Finely dressed, elegant; neat.

Etymology 8

See dinq.

Adjective

dink (not comparable)

1. (US, military) Alternative spelling of dinq

Anagrams

• -kind, kind

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch dinken, a regional variant of denken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??k/

Verb

dink (present dink, present participle denkende, past dag or dog, past participle gedag or gedog or gedink)

1. to think
   • 1939, Jaarboek, page 44:

     Ons het gedag dat die behoefte om te pleit om 'n dergelike samewerikng […]

   • 1951, Suid-Afrikaanse Hofverslae, volume 3, page 79:

     […] ek het gedag dat met my man se dood dit sal nou tot niet geraak het.

   • 1993, A Grammar of Afrikaans, Bruce Donaldson, page 223:

     Hy het gedag/gedog/gedink ek sou eers môre kom.

Usage notes

• The regular past form het gedink can be used in all senses.
• The irregular past forms dag, dog; het gedag, het gedog can only be used in the sense of “to believe, to reckon (that)”, but not in the sense of “to think about, to ponder”.

Derived terms

• bedink
• nadink

Anagrams

• kind

Scots

Etymology 1

Origin unknown. Attested in Old Scots circa 1500.

Adjective

dink (comparative mair dink, superlative maist dink)

1. neat and tidy

Verb

dink (third-person singular present dinks, present participle dinkin, past dinkt, past participle dinkt)

1. to deck
2. to dress neatly

Etymology 2

Probably a variant of English dint, a dent or mark left by a blow.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

1. a bruise

Verb

dink (third-person singular present dinks, present participle dinkin, past dinkt, past participle dinkt)

1. to dent, to bruise

References

• “dink” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.