pinky
Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystalsMethylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
» Ziri is missing his right pinky.
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6 senses(Australia, historical, slang, uncountable)Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
(countable, uncountable)A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.
neugeborene Maus
мишеняmyšenja
(countable, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur, uncountable)A white person.
(Australia, countable, informal, uncountable)The Australasian snapper or pink snapper (Chrysophrys auratus).
(countable, historical, uncountable)A kind of fishing schooner of New England.
(Australia, Canada, Scotland, US, informal)The smallest finger or toe of a hand or foot.
- the finger farthest from the thumb
Examples
15 sentencesZiri is missing his right pinky.
I licked cream cheese off my pinkie.
Tom drinks wine with his pinky out.
You are as inactive as a bagpiper’s pinky.
deDu bist untätig wie der kleine Finger eines Dudelsackspielers. — Esperantostern
The smallest finger in the hand is the pinky.
Translations
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Origin
From Dutch pinkje, diminutive of Dutch pink (“little finger”). Cognate with West FrisianFrom Dutch pinkje, diminutive of Dutch pink (“little finger”). Cognate with West Frisian pinke (“pinky”), dialectal English pink (“something small or tiny”), and perhaps to Old English pinca (“a point”). Compare also German Low German Pink (“penis”), English pintle (“penis”).
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Forms
plural: pinkiesSynonyms
7 synonyms- the finger farthest from the thumb:little fingerpinkie
Word family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable