Oinker vs Sinker - What's the difference?
oinker | sinker |
(slang, countable) A pig: an animal of the genus Sus .
A pig: a fat person.
* 2002 , , Doubleday, ISBN 0385496958, page 302,
*:"What an oinker ," someone whispered off screen. Then something Caffery couldn't understand, which ended clearly with the word "flabby."
A pig: a dirty or slovenly person.
An MCP; male chauvinist pig.
* 2006 , , Hundred-Dollar Baby , Putnam, ISBN 0399153764, page 150,
A pig: a glutton.
* 2005 , Jacqueline Meadows, Something Wanton , Ellora's Cave Publishing, ISBN 1419951017, page 95,
*:"I know I'm being an oinker but I didn't get lunch today." My ravenous gaze fell to his half-eaten hotdog. "You going to finish that?"
A pig: a police officer.
* 1998 , Jessica Speart, Tortoise Soup , HarperCollins, ISBN 0380792893, page 40,
*:"Hi. I'm Rachel Porter, with Fish and Wildlife," I said.
*:"So you're the new oinker , huh?" he commented, squinting up at me.
Someone or something that oinks
(fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink
(baseball) Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball
(construction) Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
(slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
* 1926 , Edna Ferber, Show Boat: A Novel , page 268
* 2001 , Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862 , page 148
* 2003 , William W. Johnstone, Ambush Of The Mountain Man , page 168
In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
As nouns the difference between oinker and sinker
is that oinker is a pig: an animal of the genus Sus while sinker is a weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.oinker
English
Noun
- The slug they dug out of him was a .22. A woman's gun? Or was I being a sexist oinker ?
Synonyms
* (all senses) pigAnagrams
*sinker
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hook the sinker onto this loop.
- His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.
- Of the fifty cents, ten went for the glassy shoeshine; twenty-five for a boutonniere; ten for coffee and sinkers at the Cockeyed Bakery.
- they improvised by opening a barrel of flour and letting each man dump in a quart of water (if he had one) and scoop out a handful of dough to bake into rock-hard sinkers .
- "Gonna have to dip them sinkers in coffee to get 'em soft enough to chew," Jason Biggs said, grinning.