Tik vs Tink - What's the difference?
tik | tink |
(South Africa, slang) crystal meth or speed.
* "This Tuesday Special Assignment focuses on a deepening crisis in Cape Town. Many young adults and schoolchildren as young as 10 years are in the grip of a powerful drug called crystal methamphetamine β known locally as tik . Itβs been on the fringes for several years but it is now catching on fast among the youth of the Western Cape. [http://www.sabcnews.com/specialassignment/tiktik.html] - 27k
* "Over a third of all people seeking rehabilitation in the second half of 2005 reported that their primary problem was tik ". Weekend Argus 13/14 May 2006 p.12.
(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 nouns the difference between tik and tink
is that tik is a bitch, a female dog while tink is (dated) a sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.As a verb tink is
to emit a high-pitched noise or tink can be (knitting|slang|transitive) to unknit.tik
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* * South African English ----tink
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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 βtinking β as it is known by some knitters, is all that is needed to get back to the point where you can mend your mistake.