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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

... given by animals and plants. His happiness, like the Scythian philosopher's, lay all in the beauties of his garden; and best-loved and visited most often, was the apiary, composed of twelve domes of straw, some of which he had painted a bright pink, and some a clear yellow, but most of all a tender blue; having noticed, long before Sir John Lubbock's demonstrations, the bees' fondness ...

— The Life of the Bee • Maurice Maeterlinck

... down upon Lost Valley. The wide ranges lay dim and mysterious, grey and pink and lavendar, as if the hand of a Master Painter had coloured them, as indeed it had. The Rockface at the west was black with shadow for all its rugged miles, the eastern uplands were bathed and aglow ...

— Tharon of Lost Valley • Vingie E. Roe

... jessamine, clematis, and musk-roses, and in one southern nook a magnificent tree-like fuchsia, but the old chimney actually garlanded with delicate creepers, the maurandia, and the lotus spermus, whose pink and purple bells, peeping out from between their elegant foliage, and mingling with the bolder blossoms and darker leaves of the passion-flower, give such a wreathy and airy grace to the humblest building;* in spite of this luxuriance of ...

— The Widow's Dog • Mary Russell Mitford

... posed. To her other eccentricities it seemed Miss Raymount added radicalism—and that not of the palest pink! But happily for him, Cornelius, who had been all the time making noises on the piano, at this point ...

— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald

... Like some great silver-pink fish, the ship sang on through the eternal night. There was no impression of swimming; the fish shape had neither fins nor a tail. It was as though it were hovering in wait for a member of some smaller species ...

— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

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