Oinked vs Tinked - What's the difference?
oinked | tinked |
(oink)
Representing the sound made by a pig.
Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig ).
* 1982 , Sandy Asher, Just like Jenny?
* 2003 , Robert N. Mansfield, Randy Maas, The Assassin: Attack on America
* 2005 , Alinka Zyrmont, Forbidden Passion
The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.
Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.
(tink)
(knitting, slang, transitive) To unknit.
* Amy Lane, A Knitter in His Natural Habitat (page 48)
* 2006 , Heather Dixon, Not Your Mama's Knitting (page 89)
As verbs the difference between oinked and tinked
is that oinked is past tense of oink while tinked is past tense of tink.oinked
English
Verb
(head)oink
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- 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.
- "The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink , oink!"
- 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 protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks .
Synonyms
* gruntVerb
(en verb)- The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.
Synonyms
* gruntSee also
* grunt * squealAnagrams
*tinked
English
Verb
(head)tink
English
Etymology 1
Imitative.Synonyms
* tinkleReferences
[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tink]Etymology 2
knit spelled backwards.Verb
(en verb)- Stanley knitted when he should have purled and swore, tinking the knitting back to fix the flaw.
- If the stitch you need to fix is on the last or previous row, a bit of unknitting, or “tinking ” as it is known by some knitters, is all that is needed to get back to the point where you can mend your mistake.