kink

Meaning

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

Synonyms

twist

knot

🪢

crick

cramp

curl

twirl

curve

coil

hitch

get twisted

spasm

tangle

eccentricity

crimp

wrick

frizz

frizzle

kink up

kinky

crape

quirk

rick

loop

➿

error

eyebolt

failure

fancy

fault

flaw

freak

friction

glitch

hiccup

hobby

impairment

imperfection

interweave

issue

jumble

junction

kinking

knob

knurl

maggot

mar

matter

mix up

monomania

moodiness

node

nub

obsession

perm

pervert

perverted

preventative

problem

shortcoming

snarls

tetany

throe

trouble

twiddle

twine

vagary

wave

👋

whim

whimsicalness

whimsy

wind

wrapping

wreathe

wrinkle

close in on

sharp bend

tetchiness

sharp angle

cinkle

mascular spasm

tetanilla

dislocated part

baffle

coil buckling

bemuse

bend

blame

bowline

caprice

catch

complicate

confound

confuse

conundrum

convolute

convulsion

crankiness

criminal

crotchet

crotchetiness

defect

disorder

enfold

enmesh

enshroud

envelop

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɪŋk/

Etymology

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”).