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Yes. The word kink is a Scrabble US word. The word kink is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (1 found)

KINK,

3-letter words (2 found)

INK,KIN,

2-letter words (2 found)

IN,KI,

You can make 5 words from kink according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of kink

kink iknk knik nkik inkk nikk kikn ikkn kkin kkin ikkn kikn knki nkki kkni kkni nkki knki inkk nikk iknk kink nkik knik

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Definitions and meaning of kink

kink

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɪŋk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

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

  • chink

Verb

kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)

  1. To laugh loudly.
  2. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.

Noun

kink (plural kinks)

  1. (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”), 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

  • k1nk, k!nk, k/nk, k*nk (bowdlerizations)

Noun

kink (countable and uncountable, plural kinks)

  1. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
  2. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
  3. An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
  4. (informal, countable or uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
  5. (informal, countable) A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
    Synonym: kinkster
  6. (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of "unusual sexuality"): normophilia
Derived terms
  • kink meme
  • kinkshame
  • kinky
  • sun kink
  • YKINMK
Translations
See also
  • BDSM
  • fetish

Verb

kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)

  1. (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
  2. (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.
Derived terms
Translations

References

Anagrams

  • Knik

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch *kinc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɪŋk/
  • Hyphenation: kink
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Noun

kink f (plural kinken, diminutive kinkje n)

  1. kink (curl, twist, or bend)

Derived terms

  • kinkhoorn

Descendants

  • → Papiamentu: kènk, kenku

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Low German schenke.

Noun

kink (genitive kingi, partitive kinki)

  1. gift
  2. favour/favor
Inflection
Derived terms
  • jõulukink

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)

  1. small mound, knoll
Inflection
Derived terms
  • häbemekink

Hungarian

Etymology

From ki (“who”) +‎ -nk (“our, of ours”, possessive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkiŋk]
  • Hyphenation: kink

Pronoun

kink

  1. first-person plural single-possession possessive of ki

Declension

Yola

Etymology

A nasal form from Middle English kyken. Compare also robunkshough (“roebuck forest”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɪŋk/

Verb

kink (simple past kinket)

  1. to toss or trip, kick

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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