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Pinking vs Rinking - What's the difference?

pinking | rinking |

As nouns the difference between pinking and rinking

is that pinking is decoration by adding holes or scalloping while rinking is (colloquial|dated) skating in a rink.

As a verb pinking

is .

pinking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Decoration by adding holes or scalloping.
  • * 1766 , Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
    • These rufflings, and pinkings , and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.

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    rinking

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (colloquial, dated) skating in a rink
    • (Webster 1913)