Pinkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: pĭngk, IPA: /pɪŋk/
• (General American) IPA: /pɪŋk/, [pʰɪŋk]
• 韻: -ɪŋk

語源 1

Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked.

名詞

pink (countable and uncountable, plural pinks)

1. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers. [from 17th c.]

   My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.

   pink:  

   light pink:  

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 228:

     Jasper couldn't have known they'd been overheard upstairs, but his little smirk coming and going invited you to guess he'd been up to something. He had the pink of sex about him still.

   • 2016 March 24, Darryl Sterdan, “ZAYN’s ‘Mind of Mine’ and Gwen Stefani’s ‘This is What the Truth Feels Like’ top this week’s new music”, in The Toronto Star‎, archived from the original on 17 June 2018:

     Both halves feature lyrics that are so teen-girly they sound like they were written in pink ink in a padlocked diary with hearts and frowny faces for punctuation.

   1. Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
   2. Pale red.
2. Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations. [from 16th c.]

   This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.

3. (dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality. [from 16th c.]

   Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

     Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

4. Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters. [from 18th c.]
   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 23:

     I had taken it for granted that there would be people ‘in pink’, but these enormous confident strangers overwhelmed me with the visible authenticity of their brick-red coats.

   • 1986, Michael J. O'Shea, James Joyce and Heraldry, SUNY, page 69:

     it is interesting to note the curious legend that the pink of the hunting field is not due to any optical advantage but to an entirely different reason.

5. A huntsman.
   • 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:

     The pinks stand about the inn-door lighting cigars and waiting to see us start, while their hacks are led up and down the market-place, on which the inn looks.

6. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points. [from 19th c.]

   Oh dear, he's left himself snookered behind the pink.

7. (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
8. Alternative form of pinko.
   • 1981, Edwin R. Bayley, quoting Ben Hibbs, Joe McCarthy and the Press, page 163:

     My own guess is that there are some pinks in the State Department and in other government departments and agencies, and of course they should be found and ousted; but it seems to me that this can be done without besmirching innocent people and without making such broadside charges that people will lose faith in all government.

9. (slang) The vagina or vulva.
   • 2020 March 23, Mike Hatch, The Dumb Class: Boomer Junior High, Mike Hatch H&A Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:

     Then Eddie did what he calls, 'Two in the pink, one in the stink.' “I held up my right forefinger and middle finger and said, “Two.” Then I held up my ring finger and said “One. Two in the pussy, one in the ass.”

形容詞

pink (comparative pinker, superlative pinkest)

1. Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
2. Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
3. Having conjunctivitis.
4. By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
   • 1976, Bhalchandra Pundlik Adarkar, The Future of the Constitution: A Critical Analysis:

     The word "socialist" has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism.

5. (informal) Relating to women or girls.

   pink-collar

   pink job

6. (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.

   the pink economy

   pink pound

   pink dollar

   pink triangle

   • 1991 August 24, Lori Nairne, “Whose Parade Is It, Anyway?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 5:

     The lesbian and gay movement must decide whether the Parade is for celebrating how far we've come as we further our struggle for liberation, or whether it is going to be just another profit-making industry, supporting lesbian and gay careerism and becoming part of the Establishment (albeit a pink one!)

派生語

派生した語

動詞

pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)

1. (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
   • 2014, Teresa Carpenter, Her Boss by Arrangement‎, page 136:

     The woman’s pale skin pinked as she shook her head. “No. It’s out of my budget. Come on, Sammy”

2. (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
   • 1961, Tennessee Williams, The Night of the Iguana‎, New Directions Publishing, published 2009, act II, page 46:

     They are all nearly nude, pinked and bronzed by the sun.

   • 1985, Carl Sagan, chapter 3, in Contact, Simon & Schuster, published 1997, page 57:

     The rabbits, still lining the roadside, but now pinked by dawn, craned their necks to follow her departure.

3. (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
   • 2012, David Federman, Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones‎, page 227:

     Because heating is relatively easy to perform once one is trained to do it, it can be assumed that any pink topaz from Brazil, the gem’s main modern producer, is colored more by man than nature. […] Relatively few stones from Brazil have this trace element in enough quantity for what dealers call “pinking.”

参考

語源 2

Unknown. Some lexicographers suggest comparison to regional German Pinke (“minnow; small salmon”), but this is not widely accepted.

名詞

pink (plural pinks)

1. (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus. [from 15th c.]
2. (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr. [from 17th c.]

語源 3

Borrowed from Middle Dutch pincke. Compare French pinque.

名詞

pink (plural pinks)

1. (now obsolete) A narrow boat. [from 15th c.]

語源 4

Probably ultimately imitative, or from Dutch pingelen (“to do fine needlework”) or Low German [Term?]; compare Low German pinken (“hit, peck”) and Pinke (“big needle”).

動詞

pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)

1. To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
2. To prick with a sword.

   Synonyms: draw blood, jab, prick; see also Thesaurus:stab

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     ‘Pugh!’ says she, ‘you have pinked a man in a duel, that's all.’

   • 1999 [1844], Jacques Le Clercq, The Three Musketeers, translation of original by Alexandre Dumas, page 187:

     Within three seconds D'Artagnan pinked him thrice, dedicating each thrust as he dealt it. “One for Athos!" he cried. “One for Porthos!" and at the last, “one for Aramis!”

3. To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.

   Synonym: draw blood

   • 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 127:

     “Young man, if you have no authority, let me speak to someone who has! Put me through to Mr. Berquist.” The stooge suddenly lost his smile and Jubal thought gleefully that he had at last pinked him.

派生語

• pinkers
• pinking shears

名詞

pink (plural pinks)

1. (obsolete) A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.
   1. (obsolete) A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.
      • 1601, Weever, Mirr. Mart., C j:

        At a great word she will her poynard draw, Looke for the pincke if once thou giue the lye.

      • 1607, Thomas Middleton, Your Five Gallants, iii 5:

        A freebooter’s pink, sir, three or four inches deep.

      • 1638, “Lady's Trial”, in Ford, III. i:

        The fellow's a shrewd fellow at a pink.

      • 1885 May 13, Pall Mall G., 4/I:

        He is spotted with marks of stabs and revolver 'pinks', and he takes all his wounds quite as matter of course.

   2. (obsolete) A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.
      • 1512, Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot, IV 215:

        Item,..for iiil* powdringis and pinkis to the sam goune, .xij s

      • 1598, Florio, Tagliuzzi:

        small pinks, cuts or iagges in clothes

      • 1599, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Rev., volume iv:

        Is this pinke of equall proportion to this cut?

      • c. 1632–1641, Ben Jonson, Magnetick Lady, iii. 4:

        You had rather have / An ulcer in your body than a pink / More in your clothes.

参照

語源 5

Onomatopoeic. Compare ping.

動詞

pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)

1. Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
2. Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 590:

     And then the record changed, a piano pinking high a Poulenc-like theme.

語源 6

Borrowed from Dutch pinken.

動詞

pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)

1. (obsolete) To wink; to blink.
   • 1692, Roger L'Estrange, “A Fox and a Cock”, in Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists‎, page 409:

     A Hungry Fox that had got a Cock in his Eye, and could not tell how to come at him ; cast himself at his Length upon the Ground, and there he lay winking and pinking as if he had Sore Eyes.

形容詞

pink (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Half-shut; winking.
   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:

     Come, thou monarch of the vine,
     Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
     In thy vats our cares be drowned,
     With thy grapes our hairs be crowned.

語源 7

Unknown. Attested from the late 15th century.

名詞

pink (uncountable)

1. (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
   • 1816, Pierre François Tingry, The Painter and Varnisher's Guide‎, page 245:

     To make Dutch pink, boil the stems of woad in a solution of alum, and then mix the liquor with clay, marl, or chalk, which will become mixed with the colour of the decoction

   • 2008, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Pigment Compendium‎, page 156:

     Carlyle (2001) lists from her study of nineteenth century British documentary sources yellow carmine, Dutch pink, English pink and yellow lake in descending order of intensity.

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