kink
/ˈkiŋk/UK/ˈkɪŋk/
kink verb: to laugh loudly.
Verb (1)
kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
Noun (1)
kink (plural kinks)
Noun (2)
kink (countable and uncountable, plural kinks)
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.1856, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, The Sparrowgrass Papers
- "Still, boozers can be worked sometimes. Most people can, if you encourage their kink. One old woman staked me for three months because she got such a kick out of scandalmongering the neighbours to me."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 17
- Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- No more kink. Nothing. Finito. Got it?1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere)
- To top it all off, Lynn is into kink. Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.2013, Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore, page 13
- Synonyms:
- paraphilia
- Antonyms:
- normophilia
- A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
- "What do they think you know?"
"No more than I've told you. That he's a kink. He rapes people and kills people and spends too much money and flies grass in."1985, John Dann MacDonald, Five Complete Travis McGee Novels, page 254 - “He's a kink. All I have to do is toss off my clothes and dance around his apartment while he sits and drools.”2013, James Hadley Chase, A Can of Worms
- Synonyms:
- kinkster
- "What do they think you know?"
- Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.
- A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
Verb (2)
kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)
kink meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
kink in Tamil
- குணகல், கோட்டம், பிறழ்முறுக்கு, முறுக்கு, புடைப்பு, சுழிவு
kink in Urdu
- انوکھا خیال, بل, گتھی, خلل, پیچ, وہم
kink in Bengali
- দড়ি, তারের প্যাঁচ, মোচড়, কোনো ব্যবস্থার ছোট ত্রুটি
kink in Telugu
- కింక్ చెయ్యడానికి
More languagesFewer languages
- kink in Malayalam
- ചുരുൾച്ച, ചുരുൾ, വർത്തി, കണ്ണി
- kink in Kannada
- ಹಿಂತಿರುಚು, ತಿಕ್ಕಲು, ಸೆಡೆತ, ಮನೋವಿಕಾರ
- kink in Punjabi
- ਕਿੰਕ ਕਰਨਾ
- kink in Odia
- କିଙ୍କିଂ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
- kink in Nepali
- किङ्क गर्न, किङ्क गर्नका लागि
Examples of kink in a sentence
- This is a beta version; we're still working out the kinks.
- It also plays in my with diaper stuffing kink as a natural lead in.
- Then you can blow every blowable object in the honeymoon suite, if you so fancy such kink.
Synonyms of kink
Antonyms
Forms of kink
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | kinks |
| present participle | kinking |
| past participle | kinked |
| past | kinked |
| alternative form | chink |
| Noun | |
| plural | kinks |
| alternative form | k1nk |
| alternative form | k!nk |
| alternative form | k/nk |
| alternative form | k*nk |
Origin of kink
From Middle English kinken, kynken, from Old English *cincian (attested in cincung), from Proto-West Germanic *kinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *kinkōną (“to laugh”), from Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock, jeer, deride”), related to Old English canc (“jeering, scorn, derision”). Cognate with Dutch kinken (“to kink, cough”).
From Dutch kink (“a twist or curl in a rope”), from Proto-Germanic *kenk-, *keng- (“to bend, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gengʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid, weave”). Compare Saterland Frisian Kink (“twist or entanglement in a rope or cord”), Middle Low German kinke (“spiral screw, coil”), Old Norse kikna (“to bend backwards, sink at the knee”), Icelandic kengur (“a bend or bight; a metal crook”). Probably related to kick.
Words formed from kink
Phrases with kink
Words that rhyme with kink
Questions about kink
- What does kink mean?
- Kink means to laugh loudly.
- What is kink in Tamil?
- Kink in Tamil is குணகல், கோட்டம், பிறழ்முறுக்கு. See Kink meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is kink?
- Kink can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce kink?
- Kink is pronounced /ˈkɪŋk/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of kink?
- The past tense of kink is kinked.
Words near kink in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: kink (page history and authors); kink (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); kink (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Kink (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); kink (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kink (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); kink (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); kink (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kink (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kink (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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