Tinked vs Finked - What's the difference?
tinked | finked |
(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)
(fink)
As verbs the difference between tinked and finked
is that tinked is past tense of tink while finked is past tense of fink.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.
Anagrams
* ----finked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*fink
English
Synonyms
* (Someone who betrays a trust) betrayer, traitorDerived terms
* fink outReferences
* * * "fink" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) ----
