"shink" meaning in English

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Interjection

Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare shunk. Etymology templates: {{onomatopoeic|en}} Onomatopoeic Head templates: {{en-interj}} shink
  1. The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc). Categories (topical): Liquids
    Sense id: en-shink-en-intj-jSJY7FWX Disambiguation of Liquids: 44 12 36 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English onomatopoeias, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 30 16 18 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 52 10 21 17 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 47 20 17 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 63 9 13 15
  2. The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc).
    In particular, the sound of a blade sliding into or out of something.
    Categories (topical): Liquids
    Sense id: en-shink-en-intj-00WVrW3L Disambiguation of Liquids: 44 12 36 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Forms: shinks [present, singular, third-person], shinking [participle, present], shinked [participle, past], shinked [past]
Etymology: From Middle English shynken, schenken, schenchen (“to pour, pour a drink”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankijan, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Doublet of skink. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)keng-}}, {{inh|en|enm|shynken}} Middle English shynken, {{inh|en|ang|sċenċan|t=to pour}} Old English sċenċan (“to pour”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*skankijan}} Proto-West Germanic *skankijan, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*skankijaną}} Proto-Germanic *skankijaną, {{doublet|en|skink#Etymology_3}} Doublet of skink Head templates: {{en-verb}} shink (third-person singular simple present shinks, present participle shinking, simple past and past participle shinked)
  1. To pour or serve wine or beer; to skink. Categories (topical): Liquids
    Sense id: en-shink-en-verb-JEy-mpvm Disambiguation of Liquids: 44 12 36 8 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Forms: shinks [present, singular, third-person], shinking [participle, present], shinked [participle, past], shinked [past]
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare shunk. Etymology templates: {{onomatopoeic|en}} Onomatopoeic Head templates: {{en-verb}} shink (third-person singular simple present shinks, present participle shinking, simple past and past participle shinked)
  1. (of metal) To slide with the shink sound of metal sliding.
    Sense id: en-shink-en-verb-pqPhBc6u
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.