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Pink

adjective

Of a light shade of red. Synonym: pinkish.

noun

A light shade of red.

Any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers. Synonym: garden pink.

A person with mildly leftist political views. Synonym: pinko.

verb

(past & past part. pinked; pres. part. pinking)

Make light, repeated taps on a surface. Synonyms: knock, rap, tap.

Sound like a car engine that is firing too early. Synonyms: knock, ping. "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded"

Cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing.

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"Pink" Quotes from Famous Books

... of hotel)—"On the first floor, next to the dining-room, is the ladies' smoking-room; over here is the men's writing-room; here is the blue lecture-room where the suffrage meetings are to be held; next to it is the pink tea-room. Directly over it, on the second floor, is the music-room, where the Tuesday recitals will be given; behind it is the little theater for the Saturday tableaux. The ballroom is on the third floor, ...

— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher

... over a slow fire. The Coal Trust will see to it that you have no trouble in getting a slow but expensive fire. Let them sizzle. Now remove the necks from the clams and add baking soda. Let them sizzle. Take the juice of a lemon and scatter it at the clams. Serve hot, with pink finger bowls with your initials on them. Some people prefer to have their initials on the clams, but such an idea ...

— The Silly Syclopedia • Noah Lott

... strange, inartistic colonies, where architecture was not understood. Revelation came to George that the British Empire, which he had always suspected to be an invention of those intolerable persons the Imperialists, was after all something more than a crude pink smear across the ...

— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett

... set off for church the grey sky had changed to blue; the sun had just set, and little pink clouds like fairy cushions hung round the moon. As they passed out of the town, through the crooked path down to the Cove, Harry had again that strong sense of Cornwall that came to him sometimes so suddenly, so strangely, that it was almost mysterious, for it seemed to ...

— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole

... brother, the prisoner wrote that fatal letter, and that letter is the chief, the most stupendous proof of the prisoner having committed robbery! 'I shall beg from every one, and if I don't get it I shall murder my father and shall take the envelope with the pink ribbon on it from under his mattress as soon as Ivan has gone.' A full program of the murder, we are told, so it must have been he. 'It has all been done as ...

— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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