Crossword clues for pinkie
pinkie
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the little finger," 1808, in Scottish, from Dutch pinkje, diminutive of pink "little finger," of uncertain origin.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context anatomy English) A little finger, the finger furthest on a hand from the thumb. 2 (context anatomy less commonly English) A little toe, the toe furthest on a foot from the big toe. Etymology 2
n. (context Australia South Australia English) A bilby.
WordNet
n. the finger farthest from the thumb [syn: pinky, little finger]
Wikipedia
Pinkie may refer to:
- Little finger
- Pinkie (Lawrence painting), a 1794 portrait by Thomas Lawrence
- Pinkie House, historic Scottish mansion
- Pinkie Road, a proposed highway in Saskatchewan, Canada
- Bilby or pinkie, an animal in Southern Australia
- Pinkie, a baby mouse used as a food for exotic pets
- Pinkie, a rosemary cultivar
Pinkie is the traditional title for a portrait made in 1794 by Thomas Lawrence in the permanent collection of the Huntington Library at San Marino, California where it hangs opposite The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough. The title now given it by the museum is Sarah Barrett Moulton: Pinkie. These two works are the centerpieces of the institute's art collection, which specialises in 18th-century English portraiture. The painting is an elegant depiction of Sarah Barrett Moulton, who was about eleven years old when painted. Her direct gaze and the loose, energetic brushwork give the portrait a lively immediacy.
Usage examples of "pinkie".
This was apparently something in the way of a ruffianly toast, for the six scalawags raised their teacups in unison, pinkies politely extended like so many small logs, and slurped noisily.
One displays a foppish frock coat with the best of beavers, another a wonderful Greek nose, the third is the bearer of superb side-whiskers, the fourth of a pair of pretty eyes and an astonishing little hat, the fifth of a signet ring with a talisman on his smart pinkie, the sixth of a little foot in a charming bootie, the seventh of an astonishment-arousing necktie, the eighth of an amazement-inspiring mustache.
It was like a well-brought-up cousin of that daft carry-on with the forefinger and the pinkie that metalheads did.
Pinkie just stared, dumbfounded, Hammersmith sniffed, and Jacelyn tried to keep Rhodine from weeping, though her own confidence was shaken at the task confronting them.
By the time the dust had settled we had reached a hundred feet, and soon all we could see were the flashing headlights of the pinkies.
Now I can knock those arrangements apart like I can knock apart a castle made of toothpicks with my little pinkie if you start giving me a bad time.
Graphic cancellations, and the grains of the rubber shading the air, brushed and nudged by the hovering pinkie.
And Pinkie said, "Now you will answer our questions about those conspecific persons called 'Scuzzhawks.
And Pinkie said, “Now you will answer our questions about those conspecific persons called ‘Scuzzhawks.
Did he know that deadly coral snakes have such small jaws that you practically have to stick your pinkie right in their faces and insult them before they'll bite you?
Even if she had been able to use silverware, hold a porcelain teacup in one paw with her dew claw raised like a pinkie, and converse in the flawless English of an heiress who had attended a first-rate finishing school, Old Yeller could not have conducted herself more like a lady than she did at this Chinese feast.
This was apparently something in the way of a rabble toast, for the six malcontents raised their teacups in unison, pinkies politely extended like so much firewood, and slurped noisily.
This was apparently something in the way of a lowborn toast, for the six dregs of the earth raised their teacups in unison, pinkies politely extended like so many small cannons, and slurped noisily.
The old man took his time, punched in their order with one finger, brought the drinks to them with his pinkies extended.
She was wearing a half-dozen earrings, a charm necklace that had to have thirty or forty silver charms dangling from it, rings on the pinkies and ring fingers of both hands, a fistful of bracelets that jangled when she moved her arms.