Pink

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• As an English surname, from Old English pinca (“chaffinch”). This would not be a native Germanic inheritance as the expected form would be finc, thus probably borrowed or contaminated from Vulgar Latin *pincio (see French pinson) and its related parallels.
• Also as an English surname, from rare Middle English pink (“something small”), presumably related to pinkie.
• As a German occupational surname for a blacksmith, from imitative pink(e)pank, after the sound of hammering.
• As a Lower Sorbian surname, variant of Pjeńk, see Penk.

Pink

1. A surname.

Shortening.

Pink (plural Pinks)

1. (slang, derogatory, dated) An operative of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

• knip

From the adjective pink.

• IPA^(key): /pɪŋk/
• Hyphenation: Pink

Pink n (strong, genitive Pinks, plural Pinks)

1. pink (color)

Colors in German · Farben (layout · text)

Weiß	Grau	Schwarz
Rot (Purpur)	Orange; Braun	Gelb; Creme, Ocker
Grün (Hellgrün, Neongrün)	Grün (Dunkelgrün)
Türkis (Cyan, Meeresgrün)	Blau (Hellblau, Azurblau)	Blau (Dunkelblau)
Lila, Violett (Blasslila, Altrosa)	Lila, Violett (Magenta, Purpur)	Rosa; Pink

• “Pink” in Duden online
• “Pink” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Related to Dutch pink.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪŋk/
• Hyphenation: Pink

Pink m (plural Pinke)

1. little finger

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “Pink”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN