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chink
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chink \Chink\, v. t.
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
Chink \Chink\, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Jingle.]
A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. ``Chink of bell.''
--Cowper.Money; cash. [Cant] ``To leave his chink to better hands.''
--Somerville.
Chink \Chink\, v. t.
To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small
pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with
each other.
--Pope.
Chink \Chink\, v. i.
To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision
of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
--Arbuthnot.
Chink \Chink\ (ch[i^][ng]k), n. [OE. chine, AS. c[=i]ne fissure, chink, fr. c[=i]nan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout, G. keimen. Cf. Chit.] A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.
Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.
Shines out the dewy morning star.
--Macaulay.
Chink \Chink\ (ch[i^][ng]k), n. [From chinaman.] a chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive.
Chink \Chink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chinked (ch[i^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Chinking.] To crack; to open.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a split, crack," 1530s, with parasitic -k + Middle English chine (and replacing this word) "fissure, narrow valley," from Old English cinu, cine "fissure," related to cinan "to crack, split, gape," common Germanic (compare Old Saxon and Old High German kinan, Gothic uskeinan, German keimen "to germinate;" Middle Dutch kene, Old Saxon kin, German Keim "germ;" ), from PIE root *geie- "to sprout, split open." The connection being in the notion of bursting open.
"a Chinaman," 1901, derogatory, perhaps derived somehow from China, or else from chink (n.1) with reference to eye shape.
"sharp sound" (especially of coin), 1580s, probably imitative. As a verb from 1580s. Related: Chinked; chinking.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack. 2 A chip or dent (in something metallic). 3 (cx: figuatively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk. 2 (context intransitive English) To crack; to open. 3 (context transitive English) To cause to open in cracks or fissures. Etymology 2
n. 1 A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other. 2 (context colloquial now rare English) Ready money, especially in the form of coins. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching. 2 (context transitive English) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. Etymology 3
n. (alternative form of Chink English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Chink (also chinki, chinky, chinkie, or chinka) is an English-language ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese ethnicity. Use of the term is often considered offensive and has garnered a great deal of media attention.
Chink is sometimes used as a pejorative term for persons of Chinese descent.
Chink may also refer to:
- An area of vulnerability, as in a chink in one's armor
- Chinks, a half-length type of chaps, leather coverings for the legs, derived from chingadero.
- A colloquial term for the common pheasant in the United States, derived from "Chinese pheasant".
- Eric Dorman-Smith. a British Army officer and Irish nationalist who was almost universally known by his nickname, a corruption of a Hindi name for a type of antelope (chinkara, Gazella bennettii), which was conferred upon him by his fellow mess members whilst serving in India.
- Iron Chink, a machine that rapidly removes the fins and guts from salmon
- The Chink, a scenic rock cleft in the Isle of Wight.
- The mosquito-bourne Chikungunya virus.
The Chink is a scenic rock cleft between Bonchurch and Luccombe, Isle of Wight, with steps descending from St Boniface Down to the Bonchurch Landslips below.
Its upper end is at the northern end of clifftop parkland accessed from the Leeson Road ( A3055) car park, where there is a Southern Vectis bus route 3 stop.
The Chink was known in Victorian times as part of the development of the Bonchurch Landslips as a picturesque woodland walk.
One of several such paths with carved steps connecting the clifftop to the Isle of Wight Undercliff, it follows a joint through the Upper Greensand crags capping the cliffs above the Landslip. The path continues down through the Landslip as footpath V65, which joins the coastal path V65A at its foot.
A similar rock cleft, the better-known Devil's Chimney, is about 200 yards south.
Usage examples of "chink".
Hunter would become the first chink in her defenses, and Boran had only to wait, and watch it happen.
Each log was perfect, and they were fitted like cabinetwork, so that there was no need of chinking.
I have orders to secure placement for the king and the Prince of Wales hostages at Chink Castle, Caerphilly and Warwick.
Marster had all dem cracks chinked tight wid red mud, and he even had one of dem franklin-back chimblies built to keep our little cabin nice and warm.
He flailed for balance, snatched at the closest tablecloth and dragged a cascade of smashing china and chinking silver to the floor as he fell.
Then Mrs Sucksby would go among them, dosing them from a bottle of gin, with a little silver spoon you could hear chink against the glass.
Thus it formed a sort of room and it was from this room that Steve Kilroy had seen the chink of light.
Maclntyre is sowing religious division in the ranks, practicing rituals involving animal cruelty or non-consensual sexual acts, preaching Market Maoism or New Republicanism or otherwise aiding and abetting the Chinks or the Yanks, I warn you most seriously to not waste your time or mine.
The Frenchman, whirling up his sword, showed for an instant a chink betwixt his shoulder piece and the rerebrace which guarded his upper arm.
Indolence, their wildest ire is charmed into the torpor of the bat, slumbering out the rigours of winter, in the chink of a ruined wall.
At the same time Athos struck a violent blow upon the plaster, which split, presenting a chink for the point of the lever.
Sounds of music and applause in the saloon ascend into the gallery, and an irradiation from the same quarter shines up through chinks in the curtains of the grille.
It occurred to me that land-shells, when hybernating and having a membranous diaphragm over the mouth of the shell, might be floated in chinks of drifted timber across moderately wide arms of the sea.
In the next courtyard, behind an iron grille, were the lunar-dust-covered rosebushes under which the lepers had slept during the great days of the house, and they had proliferated to such a degree in their abandonment that there was scarcely an odorless chink in that atmosphere of roses which mingled with the stench that came to us from the rear of the garden and the stink of the henhouse and the smell of dung and urine ferment of cows and soldiers from the colonial basilica that had been converted into a milking barn.
There sat the chiefs and elders on the dais, and round about stood the kindred intermingled with the thralls, and no man spake, for they were awaiting sure and certain tidings: and when all were come in who had a mind to, there was so great a silence in the hall, that the song of the nightingales on the wood-edge sounded clear and loud therein, and even the chink of the bats about the upper windows could be heard.