Gink vs Ginn - What's the difference?
gink | ginn |
A foolish or contemptible man.
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, year=1931
, year_published=2007
, edition=Digitized
, editor=
, author=Grace Hegger Lewis
, title=Half a Loaf
, chapter=
* {{quote-book
, year=1973
, year_published=2007
, edition=Digitized
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, author=Richard Cowper
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(slang) a fellow; person.
* {{quote-book
, year=1914
, year_published=2009
, edition=HTML
, editor=
, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs
, title=The Mucker
, chapter=
* {{quote-book, year=, author=The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. (1810-1897), title=Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1, chapter=, edition=
, passage=AZA'ZEL, one of the ginn or jinn, all of whom were made of "smokeless fire," that is, the fire of the Simoom. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1886, author=Andrew Lang, title=In the Wrong Paradise, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There also were the "maids of modest glances," previously indifferent to the wooing "of man or ginn ." }}
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Sax Rohmer (1883-1959), title=The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I accordingly assumed Hassan to be a myth--a first cousin to the ginn . }}
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Charles Reade (1814-1884) and Dion Boucicault (1820-1890), title=Foul Play, chapter=, edition=
, passage=You ginn it us hot--you did. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Lawrence J. Burpee, title=Humour of the North, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Well, the doctor axed me to vote for his son, and I just up and told him I would, only my relation was candidating also; but ginn him my hand and promise I would be neuter. }}
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As nouns the difference between gink and ginn
is that gink is a foolish or contemptible man while ginn is .As a verb ginn is
.gink
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=189 , passage=Don't see a movie in it myself, but those Hollywood ginks will take anything. }}
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!' }}
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. }}
Anagrams
*ginn
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Etymology 1
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Etymology 2
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