Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To grow pink; flush.

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Examples

  • Out on the water could be seen the little "pinken" -- the fishing boats, their sails red and taut or white and wing-like, speeding before the wind.

    Story of Chester Lawrence Nephi Anderson 1894

  • As daylight began to pinken the edges of his room, Cee Cee finally released him to roll onto her other side.

    Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

  • As daylight began to pinken the edges of his room, Cee Cee finally released him to roll onto her other side.

    Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

  • There in the cage of greenery, right before his eyes, her skin began to pinken, her lips reddening and plumping once more.

    Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010

  • As daylight began to pinken the edges of his room, Cee Cee finally released him to roll onto her other side.

    Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

  • "The elephants turned blue.. they'll need to visit the pubnex to pinken up again."

    Nah, These Won't Traumatize the Kids at ALL Jen 2009

  • I remember in the old days of Tory budgets, the special edition of the FT would sell out early the next day as accountants and economist bought the pinken to find out what was in the small print of the budget or the red book.

    Gordon Brown Doubles Your Tax Bill 2007

  • So your books are crammed tightly on your shelves... so tightly, in fact, that your delicate, petal-like fingertips pinken ever so slightly at the effort of extracting a tome.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Doppelganger 2007

  • In the small front room the Goddamn Parrot harangued himself in his sleep, his language fit to pinken the cheeks of amazons.

    Angry Lead Skies Cook, Glen 2002

  • In a matter of minutes, the flesh of Marx Marvelous would pinken.

    Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

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