Posted on 09/16/2009 6:29:16 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
pink • \PINK\ • verb 
1a. to perforate in an ornamental pattern
1b. to cut a saw-toothed edge on *
2a. pierce, stab
2b. to wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule
* Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
Example sentence:
"The sleek curtain requires no sewing; we pinked the edges to add a bit of detail." (Jennie Voorhees, Martha Stewart Living, April 2002)
Did you know?
Our unabridged dictionary, Webster's Third New International, includes 13 distinct entries for "pink," whereas our abridged volume, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate, satisfies itself with the five most common. (Words get distinct entries in our dictionaries when they have different etymologies or different parts of speech.) Today's "pink," the only verb of the five, is from a Middle English word meaning "to thrust." Of the remaining four, the only "pink" older than the verb (which dates to 1503) is a 15th century noun referring to a kind of ship. The next-oldest noun has since 1573 referred to a genus of herbs. The noun referring to the color pink and its related adjective date to 1678 and 1720, respectively. Evidence suggests that a new verb "pink" -- a synonym of the verb "pink-slip" -- is also emerging.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Here is my example with today's WFTD.
You can pink it around the edges all you want to try and make it pretty, but in the end the administration's attempted government take over of the health care industry is just one more huge crap sandwich that he is trying to force down our throats.
Lessons of Massachusetts health care vs. Obama health care
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
Only 
days left until BO's replacement is sworn in.
Only 
days until Christmas!
(Time to start those shopping lists! Thank you, xs, for reminding me that the Season is upon us.)
pinked?
It's about dang time!
Way too much of the four-letter word today. Try not to burn down the classroom.
Only days until Christmas!
Good morning. Do you like the way I pinked up the classroom with some holiday trimmings?
sure did. did you like the way i pinked up the classroom with pink?
The challenge for the day will be to use the word in its form/sense that was chosen as today’s word and not in the more familiar form/sense associated with the color.
I wonder if the verb “pink”, to thrust, came from the verb “potch”, meaning to poke or thrust at (Shakespeare, Coriolanus Act 1, scene 10)
Yes, indeed.
Down in Crackerland the WFTD would be pronounced, “Pank.”
Did you really HAVE to remind him???????????
Good grief we actually still have 6 days of summer left and he’s talking about Christmas already??? It’s bad enough the stores already have Halloween crapola out already.
OH, and it’s raining here yet AGAIN and the forecast is for rain for the rest of the danged week.
Could you give me a sentence using the words "green," "pink," and "yellow?"
After a moment of thought, Patel replied,
"The telephone goes 'green, green, green' so I pink it up and say, 'yellow!'"
Evidence suggests that a new verb "pink" -- a synonym of the verb "pink-slip" -- is also emerging.In this sense, we need to have a massive pinking of the House and Senate in November 2010, and an overwhelming pinking of the White House in November 2012.
there is a country and western song called something like give me that WINK, which i def heard pronounced WANK. give me that WANK.
See post 15.
ok so you used it, now we’re done : )
I never knew why they were called “pinking shears” before. Now I do.
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