Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- etc. See
pinky .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Australia, South Australia A
bilby . - noun anatomy A
little finger , thefinger furthest on ahand from thethumb . - noun anatomy, less commonly A
little toe , thetoe furthest on afoot from the thumb toe.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the finger farthest from the thumb
Etymologies
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Examples
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But now I’m a little sunburnt, and my left pinkie is on strike.
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But now I’m a little sunburnt, and my left pinkie is on strike.
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“We did, and while it pains me to break a pinkie swear, the thing is…” I held the little pillow against me and told her everything—how I’d found Evan’s name in Kitty’s kitchen, how the police had found his number on Kitty’s caller ID.
Goodnight Nobody Jennifer Weiner 2005
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“We did, and while it pains me to break a pinkie swear, the thing is…” I held the little pillow against me and told her everything—how I’d found Evan’s name in Kitty’s kitchen, how the police had found his number on Kitty’s caller ID.
Goodnight Nobody Jennifer Weiner 2005
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“We did, and while it pains me to break a pinkie swear, the thing is…” I held the little pillow against me and told her everything—how I’d found Evan’s name in Kitty’s kitchen, how the police had found his number on Kitty’s caller ID.
Goodnight Nobody Jennifer Weiner 2005
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In a rough-and-ready sports car, it might have been fine, but it lacked the kind of pinkie-in-the-air refinement the SM deserved.
Jalopnik Aaron Severson 2010
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Known as the "pinkie" form, the application expedites enrollment of pregnant women and children into the state's free health insurance programs.
Emaxhealth 2008
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Look at that pinkie of yours and know that its name is similar to the name of a ship filled with goods.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Take a black marking pen and write G-G for gris-gris on your left pinkie.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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In the time that she makes me wait (she's finishing her pinkie toe), I think about how I could learn a thing or two from her: she with the hang-loose curls on her head and liberated legs (she's wearing cut-offs).
French Word-A-Day: 2009
bilby commented on the word pinkie
Another word for bilby, according to Wikipedia. The closest I've come to hearing it was from an Aboriginal woman, who was from the central desert region at the top of South Australia. The term she used sounded like pinkie-bobo.
I fear my life is pretty much over once sionnach gets hold of this information.
September 14, 2009
gangerh commented on the word pinkie
plinkie!
September 14, 2009
reesetee commented on the word pinkie
*waits for sionnach*
September 15, 2009
sionnach commented on the word pinkie
Big-ears and I can have our own cartoon series - we can call it 'Pinkie and the Brain!'
No wait, that's been done already.
OK, OK. Much as it pains me to admit it, my heart isn't in it. Picking on the bilbster when he is expecting it and has a big target sign painted on his little leathery behind just isn't that much fun. Besides which, my mama raised me to be respectful to all god's critters, even marsupials with special needs.
*slinks off muttering to self - 'damn, I'm losing my touch - back in the day calumny and vituperation used to come naturally to me!'*
September 15, 2009
reesetee commented on the word pinkie
*watches sionnach leave*
September 15, 2009
sionnach commented on the word pinkie
Though "Pinkie McPinkerton" does have a certain ring to it!
September 15, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word pinkie
... "leathery behind"??
September 15, 2009
bilby commented on the word pinkie
Wrong end!
September 15, 2009
sionnach commented on the word pinkie
Shouldn't this page link to medicinal compound?
September 16, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word pinkie
"Pinkie toe" is sometimes used to differentiate the least foot appendage from the hand digit referred to.
September 17, 2009
dontcry commented on the word pinkie
The painting of the girl in pink Pinkie by Thomas Lawrence. We had Pinkie and Blue Boy in the bedroom hallway of my childhood home.
December 2, 2009
qms commented on the word pinkie
Hmm: bilby, macrotis, pinkie? I think this particular bandicoot carries too many passports to be trusted.
March 30, 2017