Definizione monolingua

pink

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.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 642:

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

pink (plural pinks)

1. A colour between red and white; pale red.

   My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.

2. Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.

   This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.

3. (archaic) excellence, perfection

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

4. hunting pink; scarlet
   • 1986, Michael J OShea, 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. Formerly no man might hunt even on his own estate until he had a licence of free warren from the Crown. Consequently he merely hunted by the pleasure of the crown, taking part in what was an exclusively Royal sport by Royal permission. And for this Royal sport, he wore the Kings livery of scarlet.

5. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 6 points.

   Oh dear, hes left himself snookered behind the pink.

6. (colloquial) A common minnow.
7. (colloquial) A young salmon.
8. (slang) A unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare babbitt, bourgeoisie.

pink (comparative pinker, superlative pinkest)

1. Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
2. Of a fox-hunters jacket: scarlet.
3. Having conjunctivitis.
4. (obsolete) By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.
   • 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.

Definizione dizionario pink

	rosa
	pale red colour
	colored/coloured between red and white
	Colore ottenuto mischiando tinte rosse e bianche.
	A colour obtained when mixing red and white paint.
	Il cui colore è tra il rosso e il bianco.
	Whose colour between red and white.

	garofano
	flower

forare

trafiggere

Altri significati:

Having a colour between red and white; pale red.

(archaic) excellence, perfection

(colloquial) A common minnow.

Having conjunctivitis.

hunting pink; scarlet

To prick with a sword.

pink (wing colour of crested ibis) (color)

A narrow boat.

(light) pink

To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.

(colloquial) A young salmon.

A colour between red and white; pale red.

(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).

(slang) A unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare '''babbitt''' , '''bourgeoisie''' .

(obsolete) By comparison to '''red''' (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.

pink (colour, color)

Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.

(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 6 points.

Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.