kink

(Engels)

Verb

1. To laugh loudly.
2. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.

Noun

A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
2. (countable, uncountable) A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
3. (countable, uncountable) An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
4. (countable, uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
5. (countable, uncountable) A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
6. (countable, uncountable) Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.
7. (countable, uncountable) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.

Teenoorgestelde van

normophilia

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kɪŋk/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: kinken

Geërf van Old English: *cincian

Verwante met Old English: canc

Verwante met Nederlands: kinken

Verwante met Middle Low German: kinke

Verwante met Old Norse: kikna

Verwante met Yslands: kengur

In summary

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”).

Sinonieme

twist

knot

🪢

crick

curl

curve

coil

hitch

twirl

cramp

eccentricity

crape

rick

frizzle

frizz

crimp

tangle

spasm

wrick

loop

➿

kink up

kinky

quirk

get twisted

enshroud

enfold

convulsion

catch

enmesh

disorder

envelop

convolute

defect

interweave

conundrum

caprice

bend

impairment

crotchetiness

confuse

hiccup

glitch

crotchet

confound

hobby

bowline

imperfection

friction

issue

jumble

freak

Vertalings

Knick

ιδιοτροπία

anilla

💍

λόξα

βίδα

nodo

🪢

arrissar

arrissar-se

μανία

knoten

Schleife

🙇

κόμπος

cargolar-se

Knoten

🪢

cargolar