Meaning

8 senses

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)A bench.

  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)A table or similar surface for laying out items.

  3. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)A sideboard or shelf unit for holding dishes.

  4. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)A mountain ledge.

  5. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)A long cut in peat moss, marking a section from which blocks of peat are cut.

  6. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)A hive.

  7. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)A pacifier.

  8. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)A musical, percussive noise; plink.

Origin

From Middle English bink, binke, variants of Middle English benk, benke, from Old English

From Middle English bink, binke, variants of Middle English benk, benke, from Old English benc (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. More at bench.

Clipping of binky.

Onomatopoeia

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Forms

plural: binks
Singularbink
Pluralbinks

regular

See also

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