Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗Having a colour between red and white; pale red. · Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet. · Having conjunctivitis. · By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“to blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked. An earlier word for similar flesh-like colors, mostly displaced by pink, was incarnation ([1300s]; see Etymonline) and carnation.
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- Cognate mentionpinkennl · to blink
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