Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man, especially one regarded as foolish or contemptible.
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- noun A foolish or contemptible man.
- noun slang a fellow; person.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The second "gink" was a big flabby-looking "duck," and when he had descended quietly the detective had no difficulty in finding out that the man was registered at the hotel as John Harrington.
Every Man for Himself Hopkins Moorhouse
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Once upon a time in Ashcroft there lived a "gink" who was very much wrapped up in himself.
Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope
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When she read that her favorite poet was Rabindranath Tagore she wondered who that "gink" was.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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He wanted to find out just what kind of a gink I was.
Chapter 9 2010
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You'll have to get some gink to dope out instalments for that serial.
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Tell him to kick around and get some gink to turn out a live serial, and to put into it the real romance and glamour and colour of San Francisco.
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And, honest to God, Saxon, that gink looks down at his feet to see.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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A gink begins cutting his insight teeth the first often he bites on holiday more than he can chew.
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Part of the distance I feel comes from the Artaud-like sense of detachment engendered by the Arbogast-like ride to the floor, with Owen Roizman's camera following the subject from Regan's POV backwards down to the carpet as he screams, his mouth open wide, like Munch's The Shriek, like the gink on the cover of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
31 Screams: The guy who gets his nuts crushed by Pazuzu Arbogast 2008
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Heard some gink on NPR warning darkly about the danger of Mexico returning to the policies of the past.
Think Progress » American Press Fearmonger Against Mexico’s Progressive Candidate 2006
knitandpurl commented on the word gink
"From what Sinkler had seen, the man worked as hard as the road crews and had about as much to show for it. Twenty years older and too much of a gink to realize what Lucy understood at eighteen."
"The Trusty" by Ron Rash in the May 23, 2011 issue of the New Yorker, p 73
May 25, 2011