gink

English

Etymology

Unknown

Noun

gink (plural ginks)

1. A foolish or contemptible man.
   • 1931, Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf^[1], edition Digitized, published 2007, page 189:

     Don't see a movie in it myself, but those Hollywood ginks will take anything.

   • 1973, Richard Cowper, Clone^[2], edition Digitized, Doubleday, published 2007, page 33:

     No wonder the country's on its bloody knees! You ginks are a bloody disgrace to the human race!'

2. (slang) a fellow; person.
   • 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker^[3], edition HTML, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:

     so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted.

Anagrams

• king, King