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Fink vs Gink - What's the difference?

fink | gink |

As nouns the difference between fink and gink

is that fink is finch while gink is a foolish or contemptible man.

fink

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, US, slang) Someone who betrays a trust.

    • Synonyms

    * (Someone who betrays a trust) betrayer, traitor

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (chiefly, US, slang) To betray a trust.

    • Derived terms

    * fink out

    References

    * * * " fink" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) ----

    gink

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A foolish or contemptible man.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1931 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Grace Hegger Lewis , title=Half a Loaf , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=189 , passage=Don't see a movie in it myself, but those Hollywood ginks will take anything. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1973 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Richard Cowper , title=Clone , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Doubleday , isbn= , page=33 , passage=No wonder the country's on its bloody knees! You ginks are a bloody disgrace to the human race!' }}
  • (slang) a fellow; person.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1914 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Mucker , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted. }}

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