pink2
n.
a plant with sweet-smelling pink or white flowers and slender grey-green leaves.
[Genus
Dianthus.]
Etymology
C16: perh. short for pink eye, lit. ‘small or half-shut eye’.
pink3
v.
- cut a scalloped or zigzag edge on.
- archaic decorate.
Etymology
C16 (in the sense ‘pierce or nick slightly’): cf. Low Ger. pinken ‘strike, peck’.
pink4
v.
Brit. (of a vehicle engine) make rattling sounds as a result of over-rapid combustion of the fuel–air mixture in the cylinders.
Etymology
early 20th cent.: imitative.
pink5
n.
historical a small square-rigged sailing ship with a narrow overhanging stern.
Etymology
C15: from MDu. pin(c)ke, of unknown ultimate origin.
pink6
n.
dated a yellowish lake pigment made by combining vegetable colouring matter with a white base.
Etymology
C17: of unknown origin.