kink – English noun declension

English noun forms of kink

Noun: kink
Singularkink
Pluralkinks

Sample Sentences

  • We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
  • They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.
  • 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:]
  • 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:]
  • "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:]

Etymology

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”). See: Old English Nouns '*cincian', Old English Nouns 'canc'.

Verbs referencing "kink"

Old Norse Nouns kǫngull, Old Norse Nouns kengr.