Meaning

2 senses

  1. To pour or serve wine or beer; to skink.

  2. To slide with the shink sound of metal sliding.

Origin

From Middle English shynken, schenken, schenchen (“to pour, pour a drink”), from Old Engli

From Middle English shynken, schenken, schenchen (“to pour, pour a drink”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankijan, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Doublet of skink.

Onomatopoeic. Compare shunk.

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Forms

shinks, shinking, shinked, shinked
Base formshink · to shink
3rd person singularshinks
Present participleshinking
Past simpleshinked
Past participleshinked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyshink
he, she, itshinks

Past simpleLesson

all personsshinked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave shinked
he, she, ithas shinked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill shink

Word family

1 related words
Derivednuncheon

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
shineA2shingleshinyB1shipA1
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