bink

English

Etymology

From Middle English bink, binke, variants of Middle English benk, benke, from Old English benc (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. More at bench.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Noun

bink (plural binks)

  1. (Britain, Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) A bench.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bink in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Scots

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɪŋk/

Etymology 1

From Middle English benk, from Old English benċ, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Cognate with English bench.

Noun

bink (plural binks)

  1. bench, ledge
  2. (archaic) shelf, storage rack
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

Noun

bink (plural binks)

  1. (Hawick) Alternative form of byke
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