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Pinkish
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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World English Dictionary
| pink1 (pɪŋk) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | any of a group of colours with a reddish hue that are of low to moderate saturation and can usually reflect or transmit a large amount of light; a pale reddish tint |
| 2. | pink cloth or clothing: dressed in pink |
| 3. | See also carnation any of various Old World plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, such as D. plumarius (garden pink), cultivated for their fragrant flowers |
| 4. | any of various plants of other genera, such as the moss pink |
| 5. | the flower of any of these plants |
| 6. | the highest or best degree, condition, etc (esp in the phrases in the pink of health, in the pink) |
| 7. | a. a huntsman's scarlet coat |
| b. a huntsman who wears a scarlet coat | |
| —adj | |
| 8. | of the colour pink |
| 9. | informal (Brit) left-wing |
| 10. | derogatory (US) |
| a. sympathetic to or influenced by Communism | |
| b. leftist or radical, esp half-heartedly | |
| 11. | informal of or relating to homosexuals or homosexuality: the pink vote |
| 12. | (of a huntsman's coat) scarlet or red |
| —vb | |
| 13. | (intr) another word for knock |
| [C16 (the flower), C18 (the colour): perhaps a shortening of | |
| 'pinkish1 | |
| —adj | |
| 'pinkness1 | |
| —n | |
| 'pinky1 | |
| —adj | |
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