Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal form of
pink .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A minnow. See
pink , n., 4.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect A
minnow .
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Examples
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And we may no longer angle with worm for him, nor with penk or minnow, nor with the natural fly, as was your manner, but only with the artificial, for the more difficulty the more diversion.
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Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to @penk, wot makes' im to perspire?
Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes' im to perspire?
Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes' im to perspire?
Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes' im to perspire?
Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900
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-- Marry, Master, in a Mill-tail, where the water lagged not, but ran free as it doth in bonny Scotland; nor with no fly did I grip him, but with an artificial penk, or minnow.
Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878
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And we may no longer angle with worm for him, nor with penk or minnow, nor with the natural fly, as was your manner, but only with the artificial, for the more difficulty the more diversion.
Letters to Dead Authors Andrew Lang 1878
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