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Kinker vs Kinkier - What's the difference?

kinker | kinkier |

As a noun kinker

is a performer in a circus.

As an adjective kinkier is

comparative of kinky.

kinker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A performer in a circus.
  • * 2006 , Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants , Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, pages 36-37:
    • "So, what's the vernacular then?" I say finally. ¶ "They're called kinkers," says Camel..."don't you go calling them 'kinkers' to their faces, neither." ¶ "What do I call them?" ¶ "Performers...There's them and there's us, and you're us," says Camel.

    Synonyms

    * performer

    kinkier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (kinky)

    • kinky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Full of or curl.
    • ''kinky hair
  • Queer; eccentric; crotchety.
  • (slang) Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.
  • * 1994 , Roberta Perkins, Sex work and sex workers in Australia (page ii)
    • Their male customers are often identified as lonely, sleazy and into kinky sex
  • * 2002 , Lyla Verone, The Interview
    • Scars on my back were revealed from when I was whipped by a sadomasochistic ex-lover. I wondered if it bothered anyone, but it only seemed to make everyone harder than they already were. I was a kinky girl.

    Derived terms

    * kinkiness