pinky

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pink +‎ -y

pinky (comparative pinkier, superlative pinkiest)

1. Pinkish.
   • Edward Lear, The Jumblies, 1871:

     In a pinky paper all folded neat,

     And they fastened it down with a pin.

pinky (plural pinkies)

1. (uncountable, historical, slang, Australia) Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 262:

     “Here,” Nigel greeted him, “do try a spot of ‘pinky,’ it's ever so much fun, really.”

2. A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.
3. (offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.

From Dutch pinkje, dimintutive of Dutch pink (“little finger”). Cognate with West Frisian pinke (“pinky”), dialectal English pink (“something small or tiny”), and perhaps to Old English pinca (“a point”). Compare also German Low German Pink (“penis”), English pintle (“penis”).

pinky (plural pinkies)

1. (US, Scotland, informal) The smallest finger or toe of a hand or foot.
   • 2003, Billoo Badhshah, The Unofficial Joke Book Of Australia, page 126,

     Everyday [sic] as he passes them, the hookers wave at him with their pinkies and say, “Hi there, little boy!”

• pinkie

• (smallest finger or toe): little finger, pinky finger, pinky toe, little piggy, digit V, fifth digit

• pinky ring, pinky swear/pinky-swear, pinky promise/pinky-promise

• pinky on Wikipedia.Wikipedia