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Definition of pinkie in English: pinkienounPlural pinkies ˈpɪŋkiˈpɪŋki 1informal The little finger. 〈非正式〉小指 bring the thumb and pinkie up until they are upright as modifier you're skinnier than my pinky finger! Example sentencesExamples - On the pinkie of her right hand she wears a large yellow jade stone set in diamonds, a traditional symbol worn by rich people to protect themselves from swindles.
- Her arms were crossed and her hands were curled in a fist, palm up, with her thumbs and pinkies sticking out.
- Taylor continues ranting a bit longer, winding a strand of bleach-blond hair around her pinkie.
- He'd tear apart the whole city in fury if his granddaughter gets even a little scratch on her pinkie.
- She chewed grimly on the fingernail of her little pinkie, narrowing her eyebrows in frustration.
- Lynn nodded and twirled her brown hair around her pinkie finger.
- The nails on her pinkie and index finger were crushed.
- He's got a lived-in face and a diamond on his pinkie the size of the Ritz.
- She pushed her sunglasses up on her short hair, licked her pinkie, and rubbed her viewing lens.
- Scraping those last lipstick remnants out the tube with your pinkie is one way to stretch your lip color.
- Roy smiles, and points his left hand at me, the pinkie and ring finger extended and others curled in.
- Kath held out her pinkie and Chloe hooked fingers with her.
- You watch a movie from 10 years ago, and people have cell phones the size of their heads, while now they're the size of their pinkies.
- I bet I could get my pinkie all the way in to the first knuckle.
- On a normal keyboard, the resting position for my left hand has my pinkie and ring finger touching the side of the keyboard.
- He sticks his pinkie fingers in his mouth and whistles.
- The man across the table wearing a fur coat and had very long nails on his pinkies.
- The two little girls locked pinkies, looked at each other, kissed their fist, spit on the ground, and kicked sand over it.
- All of his fingernails are short and dirty, except for the nail on his right pinkie, which is clean and long.
- Gill had surgery on a broken pinkie on his left, non-shooting hand.
2US derogatory, informal A term used by black people for a white person. 〈贬〉白人(黑人用语) 3The maggot of the greenbottle fly, used as fishing bait. 蛆,叉叶绿蝇的幼虫(用作鱼饵) 4Australian dated, informal mass noun Cheap or home-made wine. 〈澳〉廉价葡萄酒;家酿葡萄酒
OriginEarly 19th century: sense 1 partly from Dutch pinkje 'the little finger', reinforced by pink1. Rhymesdinky, Helsinki, inky, Kinki, kinky, minke, pinky, slinky, stinky, stotinki Definition of pinkie in US English: pinkie(also pinky) nounˈpiNGkēˈpɪŋki 1informal The little finger. 〈非正式〉小指 bring the thumb and pinkie up until they are upright as modifier you're skinnier than my pinky finger! Example sentencesExamples - The nails on her pinkie and index finger were crushed.
- He sticks his pinkie fingers in his mouth and whistles.
- Gill had surgery on a broken pinkie on his left, non-shooting hand.
- Kath held out her pinkie and Chloe hooked fingers with her.
- On the pinkie of her right hand she wears a large yellow jade stone set in diamonds, a traditional symbol worn by rich people to protect themselves from swindles.
- He's got a lived-in face and a diamond on his pinkie the size of the Ritz.
- He'd tear apart the whole city in fury if his granddaughter gets even a little scratch on her pinkie.
- Lynn nodded and twirled her brown hair around her pinkie finger.
- On a normal keyboard, the resting position for my left hand has my pinkie and ring finger touching the side of the keyboard.
- Her arms were crossed and her hands were curled in a fist, palm up, with her thumbs and pinkies sticking out.
- The two little girls locked pinkies, looked at each other, kissed their fist, spit on the ground, and kicked sand over it.
- All of his fingernails are short and dirty, except for the nail on his right pinkie, which is clean and long.
- The man across the table wearing a fur coat and had very long nails on his pinkies.
- She pushed her sunglasses up on her short hair, licked her pinkie, and rubbed her viewing lens.
- Scraping those last lipstick remnants out the tube with your pinkie is one way to stretch your lip color.
- She chewed grimly on the fingernail of her little pinkie, narrowing her eyebrows in frustration.
- Taylor continues ranting a bit longer, winding a strand of bleach-blond hair around her pinkie.
- I bet I could get my pinkie all the way in to the first knuckle.
- You watch a movie from 10 years ago, and people have cell phones the size of their heads, while now they're the size of their pinkies.
- Roy smiles, and points his left hand at me, the pinkie and ring finger extended and others curled in.
2US derogatory, informal A contemptuous term for a white person. 3The maggot of the greenbottle fly, used as fishing bait. 蛆,叉叶绿蝇的幼虫(用作鱼饵) 4Australian dated, informal Cheap or homemade wine. 〈澳〉廉价葡萄酒;家酿葡萄酒
OriginEarly 19th century: pinkie (sense 1) partly from Dutch pinkje ‘the little finger’, reinforced by pink. |