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Pinking vs Winking - What's the difference?

pinking | winking |

As verbs the difference between pinking and winking

is that pinking is while winking is .

As nouns the difference between pinking and winking

is that pinking is decoration by adding holes or scalloping while winking is the act of one who winks.

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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    winking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who winks.
  • * 1828 , The Harvard Register: no. I-XII, March, 1827-Feb. 1828 (page 153)
    • I have known some happy spirits, who could sit for hours, when no other amusement presented, and talk of the winkings and squintings, they had lately been so eagle-eyed, as to detect between some innocent couple