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kink
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
From Middle English kinken, kynken, from Old English *cincian ("to laugh"; attested by cincung (“a fit of laughter”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kink?n, from Proto-Germanic *kink?n? (“to laugh”), from Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock, jeer, deride”), related to Old English canc (“jeering, scorn, derision”). Cognate with Dutch kinken (“to kink, cough”).
Alternative forms
- chink
Verb
kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
- To laugh loudly.
- To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
Noun
kink (plural kinks)
- (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
Etymology 2
From Dutch kink (“a twist or curl in a rope”), from Proto-Germanic *kenk-, *keng- (“to bend, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *geng?- (“to turn, wind, braid, weave”). Compare Middle Low German kinke (“spiral screw, coil”), Old Norse kikna (“to bend backwards, sink at the knee”), Icelandic kengur (“a bend or bight; a metal crook”). Probably related to kick.
Alternative forms
- k1nk, k!nk, k/nk, k*nk (bowdlerizations)
Noun
kink (countable and uncountable, plural kinks)
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- 1856, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, The Sparrowgrass Papers
- Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.
- 1856, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, The Sparrowgrass Papers
- (informal, countable or uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- 2013, Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore, page 13:
- To top it all off, Lynn is into kink. Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.
- 2013, Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore, page 13:
- (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation
Antonyms
- (unusual sexuality): normophilia
Related vocabulary
- BDSM
- fetish
Derived terms
- kink meme
- sun kink
- kinkshame
- YKINMK
Translations
Verb
kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
- (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
- (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.
Translations
Derived terms
References
Anagrams
- Knik
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch *kinc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??k/
- Hyphenation: kink
- Rhymes: -??k
Noun
kink f (plural kinken, diminutive kinkje n)
- kink (curl, twist, or bend)
Derived terms
- kinkhoorn
Estonian
Etymology 1
From Low German schenke.
Noun
kink (genitive kingi, partitive kinki)
- gift
- favour/favor
Inflection
Derived terms
- jõulukink
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Cognate to dialectal Finnish kenkku.
Noun
kink (genitive kingu, partitive kinku)
- small mound, knoll
Inflection
Derived terms
- häbemekink
Hungarian
Etymology
From ki (“who”) +? -nk (“our, of ours”, possessive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?ki?k]
- Hyphenation: kink
Pronoun
kink
- first-person plural single-possession possessive of ki
Declension
Yola
Alternative forms
- kick
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
kink (simple past kinket)
- to toss or trip
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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caprice
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French caprice, from Italian capriccio, from caporiccio (“fright, sudden start”): capo (“head”), from Latin caput + riccio (“curly”), from Latin ?ricius (“hedgehog”), or from Italian capro (“goat”). Doublet of capriccio.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /k??p?is/
Noun
caprice (plural caprices)
- An impulsive, seemingly unmotivated action, change of mind, or notion; a whim.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- A brief romance
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that a caprice lasts a little longer.
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- An unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- After that we cast off all allegiance to immediate, tangible, and time-touched things, and entered a fantastic world of hushed unreality in which the narrow, ribbon-like road rose and fell and curved with an almost sentient and purposeful caprice amidst the tenantless green peaks and half-deserted valleys
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- A disposition to be impulsive.
- (music) A capriccio.
Related terms
- capricious
Translations
French
Etymology
From Italian capriccio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.p?is/
Noun
caprice m (plural caprices)
- whim; wish
- Synonym: lubie
- tantrum
Derived terms
- capricieux
Descendants
- ? Danish: kaprice
- ? English: caprice
- ? Romanian: capriciu
Further reading
- “caprice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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