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fink

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/fɪŋk/

Definition of fink

7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US, slang)A contemptible person.
    “Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:jerk, Thesaurus:idiot”
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noun

  1. (US, slang)A contemptible person.
    “Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:jerk, Thesaurus:idiot”
  2. (US, slang)An informer.
  3. (US, slang)A strikebreaker.
  4. (South-Africa, US, slang)Any of several birds in the family Ploceidae native to southern Africa.

verb

  1. (US, slang)To betray a trust; to inform on.
    ““I move that we determine through a thorough investigation whether the new worker is a fink or no; and if he is a fink, let us discover who heʼs finking for!””
  2. (US, alt-of, dialectal, pronunciation-spelling, slang)Pronunciation spelling of think.

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

Unknown; first attested in 1894. A connection to Yiddish as some propose is unlikely. Suggested origins include: * German Fink (“finch; frivolous or dissolute person; informer”) as finches are notoriously…

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Unknown; first attested in 1894. A connection to Yiddish as some propose is unlikely. Suggested origins include: * German Fink (“finch; frivolous or dissolute person; informer”) as finches are notoriously chatty birds in groups. If so, then Doublet of finch. Compare canary (“informer”). * Partly from the German theory, a fanciful association by students with the freedom of wild birds as opposed to caged ones. * The slang name pink for Pinkerton agents and their use as strikebreakers in the 1892 Homestead strike. If the term is from the corporate name, then it is of Scots origin, Pinkerton being from a place near Dunbar, which is from an unrecognized first element (possibly ultimately pre-Celtic substrate) and Old English tūn (“enclosure, homestead, etc.”).

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