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D2I1N1K5

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4-letter words (2 found)

DINK,KIND,

3-letter words (5 found)

DIN,INK,KID,KIN,NID,

2-letter words (4 found)

DI,ID,IN,KI,

You can make 11 words from dink according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dink

dink

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪŋk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Etymology 1

Imitative. Originally US. Attested since the 1930s.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

  1. (tennis) A soft drop shot.
  2. (pickleball) A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
  3. (soccer) A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
Translations

Verb

dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinking, simple past and past participle dinked)

  1. (tennis) To play a soft drop shot.
  2. (pickleball) To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
  3. (cricket) To strike the ball gently.
  4. (soccer) To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.
  5. (video games, slang, transitive) To land a non-lethal headshot on.
    Synonym: goosh
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Attested since the 1930s.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.

Verb

dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinking, simple past and past participle dinked)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.
Derived terms
  • double-dink

Etymology 3

Origin unknown. Attested since the 1960s. Compare Chink, a derogatory term for a Chinese person.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

  1. (US, military slang, derogatory, dated) A North Vietnamese soldier.

Etymology 4

Acronym. Originally US. Attested since the 1980s.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

  1. (US, Australia) Acronym of double income no kids.

Etymology 5

See dinkum.

Adjective

dink

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) Honest, fair, true.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand) Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.

Adverb

dink (not comparable)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) Honestly, truly.

Noun

dink (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, Northern England) Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
  2. (historical, dated) A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.

Etymology 6

Origin unknown. Attested since the late nineteenth century.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

  1. (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) The penis.
  2. (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) A foolish or contemptible person. [from 1960s]

Etymology 7

Origin unknown. Attested in English and in Scots since the sixteenth century.

Adjective

dink (not comparable)

  1. (archaic or dialectal) Finely dressed, elegant; neat.

Etymology 8

See dinq.

Adjective

dink (not comparable)

  1. (US, military) Alternative spelling of dinq

See also

  • rinky-dink (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

  • -kind, kind

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch dinken, a regional variant of denken.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dəŋk/

Verb

dink (present dink, present participle denkende, past dag or dog, past participle gedag or gedog or gedink)

  1. to think

Usage notes

  • 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

  • bedink
  • nadink

Anagrams

  • kind

Scots

Etymology 1

Origin unknown. Attested in Old Scots circa 1500.

Adjective

dink (comparative mair dink, superlative maist dink)

  1. neat and tidy

Verb

dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinkin, simple past dinkt, past participle dinkt)

  1. to deck
  2. to dress neatly

Etymology 2

Probably a variant of English dint, a dent or mark left by a blow.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

  1. a bruise

Verb

dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinkin, simple past dinkt, past participle dinkt)

  1. to dent, to bruise

References

  • “dink”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

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