different between pinker vs pinter

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??k?(?)/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Adjective

pinker

1. comparative form of pink: more pink

Noun

pinker (plural pinkers)

1. One who pinks (in various senses).
   • 2000, Leigh David Benin, The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry (page 92)

     The job paid $65 a week. However, when she arrived for work, the employer informed her that she would also be required to do some pinking, and that she would be paid at the rate for pinkers, which was only $50 a week.

See also

• pinkers (pinking shears)

Anagrams

• Perkin, Pernik, perkin

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

pinker

1. comparative degree of pink

Adjective

pinker

1. inflection of pink:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

English

Etymology

pint +? -er

Noun

pinter (plural pinters)

1. (in combinations, Britain, slang) The drinking of a certain number of pints of beer
2. (in combinations, Britain, slang) A container that holds a certain number of pints.
   • 2006, Martyn J. Pass, Dani Pass, Waiting for Red (page 262)

     “Anyway, I'd best get a shuffle on. Got to pick some milk up, you see.” “I've just been too.” Sure enough he showed the hedgehog a four-pinter.

3. (in combinations, Britain, slang) Something that takes a certain number of pints of beer to appreciate.

   She's so ugly, an eight-pinter, I'd say.

Anagrams

• Petrin, Pitner, e-print, nipter, pre-tin, pretin, pterin, reptin, terpin

French

Etymology

pinte +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.te/

Verb

pinter

1. (informal) To get drunk

Conjugation

Further reading

• “pinter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).