kink
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English kinken, kynken, from Old English *cincian (attested in cincung), from Proto-West Germanic *kinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *kinkōną (“to laugh”), from Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock, jeer, deride”), related to Old English canc (“jeering, scorn, derision”). Cognate with Dutch kinken (“to kink, cough”).
Alternative forms
Verb
kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
Noun
kink (plural kinks)
- (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
Etymology 2
From Dutch kink (“a twist or curl in a rope”),[1] from Proto-Germanic *kenk-, *keng- (“to bend, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gengʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid, weave”). Compare Middle Low German kinke (“spiral screw, coil”), Old Norse kikna (“to bend backwards, sink at the knee”), Icelandic kengur (“a bend or bight; a metal crook”). Probably related to kick.
Alternative forms
Noun
kink (countable and uncountable, plural kinks)
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- 1856, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, The Sparrowgrass Papers:
- Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.
- (informal, countable or uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- Synonym: paraphilia
- Antonym: normophilia
- 2013, Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore, page 13:
- To top it all off, Lynn is into kink. Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.
- (informal, countable) A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
- Synonym: kinkster
- 1985, John Dann MacDonald, Five Complete Travis McGee Novels, page 254:
- "What do they think you know?"
"No more than I've told you. That he's a kink. He rapes people and kills people and spends too much money and flies grass in."
- 2013, James Hadley Chase, A Can of Worms:
- “He's a kink. All I have to do is toss off my clothes and dance around his apartment while he sits and drools.”
- (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
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Verb
kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
- (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
- (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.
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References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “kink”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch *kinc.
Pronunciation
Noun
kink f (plural kinken, diminutive kinkje n)
- kink (curl, twist, or bend)
- Er zat een kink in de kabel.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
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Descendants
Estonian
Etymology 1
From Low German schenke.
Noun
kink (genitive kingi, partitive kinki)
Inflection
Declension of kink (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | kink | kingid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | kingi | ||
genitive | kinkide | ||
partitive | kinki | kinke kinkisid | |
illative | kinki kingisse |
kinkidesse kingesse | |
inessive | kingis | kinkides kinges | |
elative | kingist | kinkidest kingest | |
allative | kingile | kinkidele kingele | |
adessive | kingil | kinkidel kingel | |
ablative | kingilt | kinkidelt kingelt | |
translative | kingiks | kinkideks kingeks | |
terminative | kingini | kinkideni | |
essive | kingina | kinkidena | |
abessive | kingita | kinkideta | |
comitative | kingiga | kinkidega |
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Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate to dialectal Finnish kenkku.
Noun
kink (genitive kingu, partitive kinku)
Inflection
Declension of kink (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | kink | kingud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | kingu | ||
genitive | kinkude | ||
partitive | kinku | kinke kinkusid | |
illative | kinku kingusse |
kinkudesse kingesse | |
inessive | kingus | kinkudes kinges | |
elative | kingust | kinkudest kingest | |
allative | kingule | kinkudele kingele | |
adessive | kingul | kinkudel kingel | |
ablative | kingult | kinkudelt kingelt | |
translative | kinguks | kinkudeks kingeks | |
terminative | kinguni | kinkudeni | |
essive | kinguna | kinkudena | |
abessive | kinguta | kinkudeta | |
comitative | kinguga | kinkudega |
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Hungarian
Etymology
From ki (“who”) + -nk (“our, of ours”, possessive suffix).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
kink
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | kink | — |
accusative | kinket | — |
dative | kinknek | — |
instrumental | kinkkel | — |
causal-final | kinkért | — |
translative | kinkké | — |
terminative | kinkig | — |
essive-formal | kinkként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | kinkben | — |
superessive | kinken | — |
adessive | kinknél | — |
illative | kinkbe | — |
sublative | kinkre | — |
allative | kinkhez | — |
elative | kinkből | — |
delative | kinkről | — |
ablative | kinktől | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
kinké | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
kinkéi | — |
Yola
Etymology
A nasal form from Middle English kyken. Compare also robunkshough (“roebuck forest”).
Pronunciation
Verb
kink (simple past kinket)
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 50
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