hink

• IPA^(key): /hɪŋk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

hink (plural hinks)

1. (obsolete) A reaping hook.

• hink pink (etymologically unrelated)

• Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Hink”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
• “hink”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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hink

1. inflection of hinken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

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hink

1. singular imperative of hinken

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hink

1. man

• Charles Wellington Furlong, The Haush And Ona, Primitive Tribes Of Tierra Del Fuego, in the Proceedings Of The Nineteenth International Congress Of Americanists (December 1915)
• Voces en el viento: raíces lingüísticas de la Patagonia : lingüística comparativa de las lenguas aborígenes del sur del continente americano (2005): genk'e-nK 'paisano', es un derivado de un término de significado 'hombre', sólo mantenido en haush (Bridges 1948 ‹hink›, Tonelli ‹enk› 'hombre')

Variant of think. From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þencan, þenċan, þenċean (“to think”), from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think, suppose, perceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”).

hink (third-person singular simple present hinks, present participle hinkin, simple past thought or thocht, past participle thought or thocht)

1. (many Scots dialects) to think.

From Middle English *hinken, from Old English hincian (“to limp, halt, hobble”), from Proto-Germanic *hinkaną (“to limp, hobble, be injured”).

hink

1. (obsolete) to falter or limp.

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hink c

1. bucket (container)
2. (slang) alcohol, vodka

• spann

• hinkvis

• hinka

• hink in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hink in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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