pinky

Meanings

Adjective

• Pinkish.
• winking

Noun

• Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
• A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.
• A white person.
• The Australasian snapper or pink snapper (Chrysophrys auratus (species)).
• The smallest finger or toe of a hand or foot.

Related

Similar words

• little finger, pinky finger, pinky toe, little piggy, digit V, fifth digit

Origin

• From pink + -y.
• From Dutch pinkje, diminutive of Dutch pink. Cognate with West Frisian pinke, dialectal English pink, and perhaps to Old English pinca. Compare also German Low German Pink, English pintle.
• pink + -y, from pink.