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peenk, peerie-winkie, peerie-winkle, peery-winky, pink, pinkie, pinky, spink, winkie,
pink [pɪŋk]
n. Anything very small.
dim. pinkie The little finger.
v. Of the eyes: to become small and narrow, to be half-shut. Of people: to contract the eyes, to blink, peer.
winkie
n. I. The little finger.
Compounds and phrases etc.
peerie-winkie: I. The little finger or toe.
peenk, peenker, penk, penksy, ping, pink, pinker, pinkie, pinksy, pinky, puink, puinker,
pink [pɪŋk]
n. A smart turn-out, a dressy outfit, a fine or showy carriage or bearing, a superior air.
dim. pinkie
v. Of small drops of moisture: to drip, drop, fall with a sharp, tinkling sound, plop. To strike with a small object, ping, to hit. To strut, put on airs.
Compounds and phrases etc.
pinker [ˈpɪŋkər]: Something large or very good.
pink oot, -up: To adorn, dress up, trick out someone.
pinksy: Smartly-dressed, dolled up.
speak pink: To adopt an affected, over-refined way of speech, to make an unsuccessful attempt at English pronunciation.
pinnet,
pinnet [ˈpɪnət]
n. A small flag, standard or ensign. A streamer or pennant.
pinnis, pinnish, pinnishin,
pinnish [I.Sh. ˈpɪnɪʃ]
v. To suffer pain or discomfort from cold or hunger, to perish with cold or hunger etc.
Compounds and phrases etc.
pinnishin: An extremely cold bout of weather.
pent, pint,
pint [pəint]
n. The measure of capacity, pint.
p$int, peint, peints, peynt, peynter, peyntin, peynts, pient, pients, pint, pinte, pinted, pinter, pintin, pintit, pintitlie, pintitly, pintless, pint-pat, pint-pot, pints, piynt, piynts, pointit, points, poynt, poynts, pynet, pynets, pynt, pynte, pynter, pyntes, pyntin, pyntit, pyntitly, pyntless, pynt-pat, pynt-pot, pynts,
pint [pəint]
n. A point. A metal-tipped shoe or boot-lace.
pl. pints
v. To point, to indicate or turn in a certain direction. To indent a stone face with a pick or pointed tool.
pt. pp. pintit adj. Of people: precise, punctilious, over attentive to detail, fussy, demanding, punctual, exact, accurate.
pintitly
adv. Accurately.
Compounds and phrases etc.
afore the pint: Premature.
cut afore the pint: To anticipate.
pinter [-ər]: A pointer.
pintin: Pointing.
pintless: Pointless.
pentle, pintill, pintle,
pintle [pɪntl]
n. The penis. EC. The ling Molva molva. U. A feeble, ineffectual worker or operator.
v. U. To work in a weak, fiddling, ineffectual way.
Compounds and phrases etc.
pintle and pysle: To work in a weak, fiddling, ineffectual way.
priest's pintles: MN. The roseroot Rhodiola rosea.
peabrock, pibroch, piobaireachad, piobaireachd, pìobaireachd,
pìobaireachd [ˈpibrɔx]
also pibroch
n. A martial bagpipe air.
peepee, peipe, pipe, piper, pipe-riper, pipe-ryper, pipey, pipie, pipy, pypar, pype, pyper,
pipe [pəip]
n. A pipe. A large ripe acorn. A low moaning sound.
pl. pipes Bagpipes.
dim. pipie A bagpipe player, a bandmaster.
v. To blow gently.
Compounds and phrases etc.
johnnie-piper: NEC. A crane fly of the genus Tipulidae.
piper [ˈpəipər]: A bagpipe player. SEC. MN. The dandelion Taraxacum officinale. An unsplit, half dried haddock Melanogrammus aeglefinus. I.Sh. The sea urchin Cidaris cidaris. MN. A crane fly of the genus Tipulidae.
pipe-riper: A pipe cleaner.
staund o pipes: A set of bagpipes i.e. the whole instrument including bag, drones and chanter.
pipper, pipperation, pipperin, pipperin,
pipper [I.Sh. ˈpɪpər]
n. A trembling, excited state. A frightened, quaking condition.
v. To tremble, quiver with fear, cold or the like. Of the heart: to throb, palpitate.
Compounds and phrases etc.
pipperation: A fit of trembling or quaking.
pipperin: Trembling, quivering.
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