kink
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈkɪŋk/|[ˈkʰɪŋk]
美 /ˈkɪŋk/|[ˈkʰɪŋk]|/ˈkɪ̝ŋk/|[ˈkʰɪ̝ŋk]
英文释义
名词 n.
- A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
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A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
— We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
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A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
— They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.
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An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
— 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.
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Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
— No more kink. Nothing. Finito. Got it?
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A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
— "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."
- Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.
- A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
动词 v.
- To laugh loudly.
- To form a kink or twist.
- To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
- To be formed into a kink or twist.
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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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