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Pink English Pinck Recorded Plant Dianthus Term Dutch

正面 2505.pink
英 [pɪŋk]美 [pɪŋk]

背面
释义:
n. 粉红色;化身,典范;石竹花;头面人物vt. 扎,刺,戳;使…变粉红色;使…面红耳赤vi. 变粉红色adj. 粉红的;比较激进的;石竹科的;脸色发红的n. (Pink)人名;(英、德、匈)平克;(法)潘克
例句:
1. He was holding a cloth that dripped pink drops upon the floor.他正拿着一块布,布上粉红色的水滴落在地板上。

soon.............速嗯(很快).................立刻;不久(以后)
pink 刺,扎,打孔,香石竹,粉红色,左倾的,与同性恋有关的词源不确定,可能来自中古法语piquer,刺,扎,穿透,词源同pike,pick.或来自拉丁语pungere,刺,扎,穿透,词源同puncture.引申词义打孔,使成锯齿状,后用于指香石竹花,因其花瓣凹凸不平,有如锯齿而得名,因这种花多开粉红色花朵,后引申词义粉红色的。后引申俚语义同情共产党的,政治左倾的,同时,也用于指娘娘腔,同性恋。
pinkpink: English has three distinct words pink. The colour term [18] appears to have come, by a bizarre series of twists, from an early Dutch word meaning ‘small’. This was pinck (source also of the colloquial English pinkie ‘little finger’ [19]). It was used in the phrase pinck oogen, literally ‘small eyes’, hence ‘half-closed eyes’, which was borrowed into English and partially translated as pink eyes.It has been speculated that this was a name given to a plant of the species Dianthus, which first emerged in the abbreviated form pink in the 16th century. Many of these plants have pale red flowers, and so by the 18th century pink was being used for ‘pale red’. Pink ‘pierce’ [14], now preserved mainly in pinking shears, is probably of Low German origin (Low German has pinken ‘peck’).And pink (of an engine) ‘make knocking sounds’ [20] is presumably imitative in origin.pink (n., adj.)1570s, common name of Dianthus, a garden plant of various colors, of unknown origin. Its use for "pale rose color" first recorded 1733 (pink-coloured is recorded from 1680s), from one of the colors of the flowers. The plant name is perhaps from pink (v.) via notion of "perforated" petals, or from Dutch pink "small" (see pinkie), from the term pinck oogen "half-closed eyes," literally "small eyes," which was borrowed into English (1570s) and may have been used as a name for Dianthus, which sometimes has pale red flowers. The flower meaning led (by 1590s) to a figurative use for "the flower" or finest example of anything (as in Mercutio's "Nay, I am the very pinck of curtesie," Rom. & Jul. II.iv.61). Political noun sense "person perceived as left of center but not entirely radical (i.e. red)" is attested by 1927, but the image dates to at least 1837. Pink slip "discharge notice" is first recorded 1915. To see pink elephants "hallucinate from alcoholism" first recorded 1913 in Jack London's "John Barleycorn."pink (v.)c. 1200, pungde "pierce, stab," later (early 14c.) "make holes in; spur a horse," of uncertain origin; perhaps from a Romanic stem that also yielded French piquer, Spanish picar (see pike (n.2)). Or perhaps from Old English pyngan and directly from Latin pungere "to prick, pierce" (see pungent). Surviving mainly in pinking shears."

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