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Oinked vs Jinked - What's the difference?

oinked | jinked |

As verbs the difference between oinked and jinked

is that oinked is past tense of oink while jinked is past tense of jink.

oinked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (oink)

    • oink

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Representing the sound made by a pig.
  • Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig ).
  • * 1982 , Sandy Asher, Just like Jenny?
    • Mom swallowed a spoonful of pudding and looked Daddy straight in the eye. "Oink , oink," she said, to let him know he was being a male chauvinist pig.
  • * 2003 , Robert N. Mansfield, Randy Maas, The Assassin: Attack on America
    • "The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink , oink!"
  • * 2005 , Alinka Zyrmont, Forbidden Passion
    • You are such a male chauvinist oink , oink. You think that you are the only one who can drive a car or fly an airplane.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.
    • The protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks .

    Synonyms

    * grunt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.
    • The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.

    Synonyms

    * grunt

    See also

    * grunt * squeal

    Anagrams

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    jinked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (jink)

    • jink

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A quick evasive turn.

    • Derived terms

    * high jinks * jinky

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a quick evasive turn.
  • * 1786 , Robert Burns, "Address to the Devil", Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect volume I:
    • But faith! he'll turn a corner jinkin , / An' cheat you yet.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 5 , author=Jonathan Stevenson , title=Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=As the Gunners attacked in unrelenting waves of red the opportunities started to fall their way, as the outstanding Wilshere fired at Hart and then Van Persie jinked into space only to see his arrow-like 18-yard left-foot rocket shot cannon back off the base of Hart's right-hand post. }}
  • To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn.