kink

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈkɪŋk/|[ˈkʰɪŋk]    /ˈkɪŋk/|[ˈkʰɪŋk]|/ˈkɪ̝ŋk/|[ˈkʰɪ̝ŋk]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying. Scotland,dialectal
  2. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc. countable,uncountable
    — We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
  3. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system. countable,uncountable
    — They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.
  4. An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice. countable,uncountable
    — Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.
  5. Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste. countable,uncountable
    — No more kink. Nothing. Finito. Got it?
  6. A person with peculiar sexual tastes. countable,uncountable
    — "What do they think you know?" "No more than I've told you. That he's a kink. He rapes people and kills people and spends too much money and flies grass in."
  7. Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms. countable,uncountable
  8. A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To laugh loudly.
  2. To form a kink or twist. transitive
  3. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
  4. To be formed into a kink or twist. intransitive

词形变化

kinks present,singular,third-person kinking participle,present kinked participle,past kinked past chink alternative kinks plural chink alternative kinks plural k1nk alternative k!nk alternative k/nk alternative k*nk alternative kinks present,singular,third-person kinking participle,present kinked participle,past kinked past k1nk alternative k!nk alternative k/nk alternative k*nk alternative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English kinken, kynken, from Old English *cincian (attested in cincung), from Proto-West Germanic *kinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *kinkōną (“to laugh”), from Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock, jeer, deride”), related to Old English canc (“jeering, scorn, derision”). Cognate with Dutch kinken (“to kink, cough”).
词源 2
From Dutch kink (“a twist or curl in a rope”), from Proto-Germanic *kenk-, *keng- (“to bend, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gengʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid, weave”). Compare Saterland Frisian Kink (“twist or entanglement in a rope or cord”), Middle Low German kinke (“spiral screw, coil”), Old Norse kikna (“to bend backwards, sink at the knee”), Icelandic kengur (“a bend or bight; a metal crook”). Probably related to kick.
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