dink
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Imitative. Originally US. Attested since the 1930s.
Noun[edit]
dink (plural dinks)
- (tennis) A soft drop shot.
- 2018 February 12, Ava Wallace, “New mother Serena Williams returns to tennis, with a little rust and plenty to learn”, in Washington Post[1]:
- But what I saw is she still has that sense of, ‘Okay, I need to hit a dink shot, I need to come with power now, I need to change up my serve not for a flat one, but a big kick.’
- (pickleball) A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
- (soccer) A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
- 2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in The Guardian[2]:
- The forward passed to Fernandes and, as Pau López advanced, the Portuguese fashioned a sand‑wedge dink over the goalkeeper.
Translations[edit]
Verb[edit]
dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinking, simple past and past participle dinked)
- (tennis) To play a soft drop shot.
- (pickleball) To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
- (soccer) To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.
- The forward dinked the ball over the goalkeeper to score his first goal of the season.
- 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC[3]:
- But the visitors started the game in stunning fashion when Morten Gamst Pedersen dinked forward a clever looping pass and Kalinic beat the offside trap, surged into the box and beautifully placed the ball past goalkeeper Scott Carson.
Etymology 2[edit]
Origin unknown. Attested since the 1930s.
Noun[edit]
dink (plural dinks)
- (Australia, colloquial) A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.
- I gave him a dink on my bike.
Verb[edit]
dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinking, simple past and past participle dinked)
- (Australia, colloquial) To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.
- 1947, John Lehmann, editor, The Penguin New Writing, number 30, page 103:
- I didn't like them at all ; only the lame one who used to let me dink him home on his bicycle.
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Etymology 3[edit]
Origin unknown. Attested since the 1960s. Compare Chink, a derogatory term for a Chinese person.
Noun[edit]
dink (plural dinks)
- (US, military slang, derogatory, dated) A North Vietnamese soldier.
- 1989, Craig Roberts, Charles W. Sasser, The Walking Dead: A Marine's Story of Vietnam, page 197:
- Our job was to go out on night patrols and stay behind to zap any dinks we caught sneaking back to their holes at dawn.
Etymology 4[edit]
Initialism. Originally US. Attested since the 1980s.
Noun[edit]
dink (plural dinks)
Etymology 5[edit]
See dinkum.
Adjective[edit]
dink
- (Australia, New Zealand) Honest, fair, true.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.
Adverb[edit]
dink (not comparable)
- (Australia, New Zealand) Honestly, truly.
- 2006, Pip Wilson, Face in the Street, page 323:
- Are you The Banjo? Fair dink no bull? Oh, sorry, lady, I mean ... dinki-di?
Noun[edit]
dink (uncountable)
- (Australia, Northern England) Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
- (historical, dated) A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.
Etymology 6[edit]
Origin unknown. Attested since the late nineteenth century.
Noun[edit]
dink (plural dinks)
- (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) The penis.
- 2004, Brian Francis, Fruit: A Novel about a Boy and his Nipples, page 2:
- The hair on my legs is softer than the hair around my dink, but it still grosses me out.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) A foolish or contemptible person. [from 1960s]
- 1997, Chris Gudgeon, You’re Not as Good as You Think, page 13:
- […] he was a dink, and all the money, fame, and power in the world wouldn't change that one simple fact.
Etymology 7[edit]
Origin unknown. Attested in English and in Scots since the sixteenth century.
Adjective[edit]
dink (not comparable)
- (archaic or dialectal) Finely dressed, elegant; neat.
- 1821, Walter Scott, Kenilworth, page 249:
- All these floated along with the immense tide of population, whom mere curiosity had drawn together; and where the mechanic in his leathern apron, elbowed the dink and dainty dame, his city mistress […]
Etymology 8[edit]
See dinq.
Adjective[edit]
dink (not comparable)
See also[edit]
- rinky-dink (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch dinken, a regional variant of denken.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
dink (present dink, present participle denkende, past dag or dog, past participle gedag or gedog or gedink)
- to think
- 1939, Jaarboek, page 44:
- Ons het gedag dat die behoefte om te pleit om 'n dergelike samewerikng […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1951, Suid-Afrikaanse Hofverslae, volume 3, page 79:
- […] ek het gedag dat met my man se dood dit sal nou tot niet geraak het.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1993, A Grammar of Afrikaans, Bruce Donaldson, page 223:
- Hy het gedag/gedog/gedink ek sou eers môre kom.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes[edit]
- The regular past form het gedink can be used in all senses.
- The irregular past forms dag, dog; het gedag, het gedog can only be used in the sense of “to believe, to reckon (that)”, but not in the sense of “to think about, to ponder”.
Derived terms[edit]
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Scots[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Origin unknown. Attested in Old Scots circa 1500.
Adjective[edit]
dink (comparative mair dink, superlative maist dink)
Verb[edit]
dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinkin, simple past dinkt, past participle dinkt)
- to deck
- to dress neatly
Etymology 2[edit]
Probably a variant of English dint, a dent or mark left by a blow.
Noun[edit]
dink (plural dinks)
- a bruise
Verb[edit]
dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinkin, simple past dinkt, past participle dinkt)
- to dent, to bruise
References[edit]
- “dink” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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