kink
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɪŋk/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋk
Etymology 1
From Middle English kinken, kynken, from Old English *cincian (attested in cincung), from Proto-West Germanic *kinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *kinkōną (“to laugh”), from Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock, jeer, deride”), related to Old English canc (“jeering, scorn, derision”). Cognate with Dutch kinken (“to kink, cough”).
Alternative forms
Verb
kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
Noun
kink (plural kinks)
Etymology 2
From Dutch kink (“a twist or curl in a rope”)[1], from Proto-Germanic *kenk-, *keng- (“to bend, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gengʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid, weave”). Compare Middle Low German kinke (“spiral screw, coil”), Old Norse kikna (“to bend backwards, sink at the knee”), Icelandic kengur (“a bend or bight; a metal crook”). Probably related to kick.
Alternative forms
- k1nk, k!nk, k/nk, k*nk (bowdlerizations)
Noun
kink (countable and uncountable, plural kinks)
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- 1856, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, The Sparrowgrass Papers:
- Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.
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- (informal, countable or uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- 2013, Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore, page 13:
- To top it all off, Lynn is into kink. Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.
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- (informal, countable) A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
- Synonym: kinkster
- 1985, John Dann MacDonald, Five Complete Travis McGee Novels, page 254:
- "What do they think you know?"
"No more than I've told you. That he's a kink. He rapes people and kills people and spends too much money and flies grass in."
- 2013, James Hadley Chase, A Can of Worms:
- “He's a kink. All I have to do is toss off my clothes and dance around his apartment while he sits and drools.”
- (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
Antonyms
- (unusual sexuality): normophilia
Translations
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Verb
kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “kink”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch *kinc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɪŋk/
- Hyphenation: kink
- Rhymes: -ɪŋk
Noun
kink f (plural kinken, diminutive kinkje n)
- kink (curl, twist, or bend)
- Er zat een kink in de kabel.
- There was a kink in the cable.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Papiamentu: kènk, kenku
Estonian
Etymology 1
From Low German schenke.
Inflection
singular | plural | |
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nominative | kink | kingid |
genitive | kingi | kinkide |
partitive | kinki | kinke / kinkisid |
illative | kinki / kingisse | kinkidesse / kingesse |
inessive | kingis | kinkides / kinges |
elative | kingist | kinkidest / kingest |
allative | kingile | kinkidele / kingele |
adessive | kingil | kinkidel / kingel |
ablative | kingilt | kinkidelt / kingelt |
translative | kingiks | kinkideks / kingeks |
terminative | kingini | kinkideni |
essive | kingina | kinkidena |
abessive | kingita | kinkideta |
comitative | kingiga | kinkidega |
Derived terms
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate to dialectal Finnish kenkku.
Inflection
singular | plural | |
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nominative | kink | kingud |
genitive | kingu | kinkude |
partitive | kinku | kinke / kinkusid |
illative | kinku / kingusse | kinkudesse / kingesse |
inessive | kingus | kinkudes / kinges |
elative | kingust | kinkudest / kingest |
allative | kingule | kinkudele / kingele |
adessive | kingul | kinkudel / kingel |
ablative | kingult | kinkudelt / kingelt |
translative | kinguks | kinkudeks / kingeks |
terminative | kinguni | kinkudeni |
essive | kinguna | kinkudena |
abessive | kinguta | kinkudeta |
comitative | kinguga | kinkudega |
Derived terms
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkiŋk]
- Hyphenation: kink
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | kink | — |
accusative | kinket | — |
dative | kinknek | — |
instrumental | kinkkel | — |
causal-final | kinkért | — |
translative | kinkké | — |
terminative | kinkig | — |
essive-formal | kinkként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | kinkben | — |
superessive | kinken | — |
adessive | kinknél | — |
illative | kinkbe | — |
sublative | kinkre | — |
allative | kinkhez | — |
elative | kinkből | — |
delative | kinkről | — |
ablative | kinktől | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
kinké | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
kinkéi | — |
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Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 50