hink

See also: Hink

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Noun

hink (plural hinks)

  1. (obsolete) A reaping hook.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hink in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation
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  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Verb

hink

  1. first-person singular present indicative of hinken
  2. imperative of hinken

German

Verb

hink

  1. second-person singular imperative of hinken

Haush

Alternative forms

Noun

hink

  1. man

References
  • 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')

Scots

Etymology 1

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”).

Verb

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

  1. (many Scots dialects) to think.

Etymology 2

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

Verb

hink (third-person singular simple present hinks, present participle hinking, simple past and past participle hinked)

  1. (obsolete) to falter or limp.

Swedish

Noun

hink c

  1. bucket (container)

Declension
Declension of hink 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hink hinken hinkar hinkarna
Genitive hinks hinkens hinkars hinkarnas

Synonyms
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