bink
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪŋk
Noun
bink (plural binks)
- (UK, Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A bench.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bink”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Romani beng, from Sanskrit व्यङ्ग (vyaṅga).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
bink m (plural binken, diminutive binkje n)
- A muscular, stout or tough man.
- 2011, Harlan Coben, Levenslijn (Myron Bolitar series), tr. by Martin Jansen in de Wal, Meulenhoff Boekerij (publ.).
- Myron Bolitar, de stoere bink met zijn stellige uitspraken.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Synonym: bikkel
- 2011, Harlan Coben, Levenslijn (Myron Bolitar series), tr. by Martin Jansen in de Wal, Meulenhoff Boekerij (publ.).
Derived terms
References
- ^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
- ^ de Vries, Jan (1971) Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
Scots
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English benk, from Old English benċ, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Cognate with English bench.
Noun
bink (plural binks)
Alternative forms
Etymology 2
Noun
bink (plural binks)
- (Hawick) Alternative form of byke
- English terms inherited from Middle English
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- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
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- Rhymes:English/ɪŋk
- Rhymes:English/ɪŋk/1 syllable
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