pinking

Verb (1)

pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)

1. (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
   • The woman’s pale skin pinked as she shook her head. “No. It’s out of my budget. Come on, Sammy”2014, Teresa Carpenter, Her Boss by Arrangement, page 136
2. (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
   • They are all nearly nude, pinked and bronzed by the sun.1961, Tennessee Williams, The Night of the Iguana, New Directions Publishing, published 2009, act II, page 46
3. (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
   • Because heating is relatively easy to perform once one is trained to do it, it can be assumed that any pink topaz from Brazil, the gem’s main modern producer, is colored more by man than nature.[…] Relatively few stones from Brazil have this trace element in enough quantity for what dealers call...2012, David Federman, Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones, page 227

Verb (2)

pink (third-person singular simple present pinks, present participle pinking, simple past and past participle pinked)

1. To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
2. To prick with a sword.
   • ‘Pugh!’ says she, ‘you have pinked a man in a duel, that's all.’1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   draw blood, jab, prick, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore

3. To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
   • “Young man, if you have no authority, let me speak to someone who has! Put me through to Mr. Berquist.” The stooge suddenly lost his smile and Jubal thought gleefully that he had at last pinked him.1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 127

   Synonyms:

   draw blood

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