pink | Lernwerd

Forms

1.Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.
2.A huntsman.
- The pinks stand about the inn-door lighting cigars and waiting to see us start, while their hacks are led up and down the market-place, on which the inn looks.
3.A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
- My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.
- Both halves feature lyrics that are so teen-girly they sound like they were written in pink ink in a padlocked diary with hearts and frowny faces for punctuation.
- Jasper couldn't have known they'd been overheard upstairs, but his little smirk coming and going invited you to guess he'd been up to something. He had the pink of sex about him still.
4.Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- I had taken it for granted that there would be people ‘in pink’, but these enormous confident strangers overwhelmed me with the visible authenticity of their brick-red coats.

1.Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
2.Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
3.Having conjunctivitis.
4.By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
- The word "socialist" has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism.

Uncommon· #2634

Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“to blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source.

Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked.