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minked

minked adjective: wearing mink fur.

Adjective

minked (not comparable)

  1. Wearing mink fur.
    • […] and the brassy-bossy men-women, with corrugated-iron perms, and hippo hides, who come, self-announced, as “ordinary British housewives”, to talk to rich minked chunks of American matronhood about the iniquity of the Health Services, […]1954, Dylan Thomas, “A Visit to America”, in Quite Early One Morning, New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 147

Origin of minked

From mink + -ed.

Questions about minked

What does minked mean?
Minked means wearing mink fur.
What part of speech is minked?
Minked is an adjective.

Words near minked in the dictionary

  1. mink frogs
  2. mink oil
  3. minke
  4. minke whale
  5. minke whales
  6. minked
  7. minkeries
  8. minkery
  9. minkes
  10. minkewhale
  11. minkewhales

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