hink

• IPA^(key): /hɪŋk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

hink (plural hinks)

1. (obsolete) A reaping hook.

• hink pink (etymologically unrelated)

• Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Hink”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
• “hink”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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hink

1. inflection of hinken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

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hink

1. singular imperative of hinken

• enk

hink

1. man

• Charles Wellington Furlong, The Haush And Ona, Primitive Tribes Of Tierra Del Fuego, in the Proceedings Of The Nineteenth International Congress Of Americanists (December 1915)
• Voces en el viento: raíces lingüísticas de la Patagonia : lingüística comparativa de las lenguas aborígenes del sur del continente americano (2005): genk'e-nK 'paisano', es un derivado de un término de significado 'hombre', sólo mantenido en haush (Bridges 1948 ‹hink›, Tonelli ‹enk› 'hombre')

hink

1. alternative form of hi꞉nk

Variant of think. From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þencan, þenċan, þenċean (“to think”), from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think, suppose, perceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”).

hink (third-person singular simple present hinks, present participle hinkin, simple past thought or thocht, past participle thought or thocht)

1. (many Scots dialects) to think.

From Middle English *hinken, from Old English hincian (“to limp, halt, hobble”), from Proto-Germanic *hinkaną (“to limp, hobble, be injured”).

hink

1. (obsolete) to falter or limp.

Uncertain. Arguably from Middle Low German henneke, hinke, from Hinrik. If so, doublet of Henke. Compare similar shift in meaning from personal name to device in German Heinz, Dietrich and English jack. Compare Finnish hinkalo (“grain bin”).

hink c

1. bucket (container)

   Synonym: (often larger) spann

   fylla en hink med vatten

   fill a bucket with water

   en hink (med) vatten

   a bucket of water

   "En hink med vatten" puts the focus on the bucket, similar to "a bucket with water" (the literal meaning). "En hink vatten" puts the focus on the water. Compare also the usage notes for glas.

   hälla en hink vatten över huvudet

   pour a bucket of water over one's head

   Without "med" to put the focus on the water.

2. (slang) alcohol, vodka

• hink och spade (“bucket and spade”)
• hinkvis
• skurhink

• hinka

• spann
• stäva

• hink in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hink in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• hink in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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