bink
English
Etymology
From Middle English bink, binke, variants of Middle English benk, benke, from Old English benc (“bench”), 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
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Scots
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English benk, from Old English benċ, 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
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