Yoinked vs Oinked - What's the difference?
yoinked | oinked |
(yoink)
(colloquial) Onomatopoeic, accompanying or describing a yank, or snatch.
(oink)
Representing the sound made by a pig.
Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig ).
* 1982 , Sandy Asher, Just like Jenny?
* 2003 , Robert N. Mansfield, Randy Maas, The Assassin: Attack on America
* 2005 , Alinka Zyrmont, Forbidden Passion
The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.
Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.
As verbs the difference between yoinked and oinked
is that yoinked is past tense of yoink while oinked is past tense of oink.yoinked
English
Verb
(head)yoink
English
Etymology 1
1954. Onomatopoeic.Etymology 2
Coined by writer George Meyer for the TV showInterjection
(en interjection)oinked
English
Verb
(head)oink
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- Mom swallowed a spoonful of pudding and looked Daddy straight in the eye. "Oink , oink," she said, to let him know he was being a male chauvinist pig.
- "The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink , oink!"
- You are such a male chauvinist oink , oink. You think that you are the only one who can drive a car or fly an airplane.
Noun
(en noun)- The protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks .
Synonyms
* gruntVerb
(en verb)- The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.