dink

Etymology 1
Imitative. Originally. Attested since the 1930s.

Noun

 * 1)  A soft drop shot.
 * 2)  A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
 * 3)  A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
 * 1)  A light chip; a chipped pass or shot

Translations

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Verb

 * 1)  To play a soft drop shot.
 * 2) (pickleball) To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
 * 3)  To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.
 * The forward dinked the ball over the goalkeeper to score his first goal of the season.

Etymology 2
en. Attested since the 1930s.

Noun

 * 1)  A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.
 * I gave him a dink on my bike.

Verb

 * 1)  To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.

Derived terms

 * double-dink

Etymology 3
en. Attested since the 1960s. Compare, a derogatory term for a Chinese person.

Noun

 * 1)  A North Vietnamese soldier.

Etymology 4
Acronym. Originally US. Attested since the 1980s.

Etymology 5
See.

Adjective

 * 1)  Honest, fair, true.
 * 2)  Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.

Adverb

 * 1)  Honestly, truly.

Noun

 * 1)  Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
 * 2)  A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.

Etymology 6
en. Attested since the late nineteenth century.

Noun

 * 1)  The penis.
 * 2)  A foolish or contemptible person.
 * 1)  A foolish or contemptible person.

Etymology 7
en. Attested in English and in Scots since the sixteenth century.

Adjective

 * 1)  Finely dressed, elegant; neat.

Etymology 8
See.

Etymology
From, a regional variant of.

Verb

 * 1) to think

Usage notes

 * The regular past form het gedink can be used in all senses.
 * The irregular past forms dag, dog; het gedag, het gedog can only be used in the sense of “to believe, to reckon (that)”, but not in the sense of “to think about, to ponder”.

Etymology 1
sco. Attested in Old Scots circa 1500.

Adjective

 * 1) neat and tidy

Verb

 * 1) to deck
 * 2) to dress neatly

Etymology 2
Probably a variant of, a dent or mark left by a blow.

Noun

 * 1) a bruise

Verb

 * 1) to dent, to bruise