Definition of Pinked

1. a. Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge.

Definition of Pinked

1. Verb. (past of pink) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pinked

1. pink [v] - See also: pink

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinked

pink sand verbena
pink shower
pink shower tree
pink shrimp
pink shrimps
pink slip
pink slips
pink snapper
pink snappers
pink spot
pink spots
pink ticket
pink wine
pinked (current term)
pinken
pinkened
pinkening
pinkens
pinker
pinkers
pinkest
pinkey
pinkeye
pinkeyes
pinkeys
pinkie
pinkier
pinkies

Literary usage of Pinked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Clothing for Women; Selection, Design, Construction: A Practical Manual for by Laura Irene Baldt (1916)
"Seams of fine serge, broadcloth or smooth surface materials may be pinked on the edges (Fig. 212). This may be done by hand. In shops a small machine is ..."

2. A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages (1869)
""If my feet/' says SANCHO, when he is about to quit his government, "are not adorned with pinked shoes of Cordovan leather, they shall not want coarse ..."

3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"pinked between the lacings, a very old term, from pinked, stabbed, still current among ... pinked or skinned, to get (American cadet), to get reported. ..."

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