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Zink vs Gink - What's the difference?

zink | gink |

As nouns the difference between zink and gink

is that zink is while gink is a foolish or contemptible man.

zink

English

Noun

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  • * 1765 , Temple H. Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clarke, The complete dictionary of arts and sciences: Volume 2
  • It is prepared, according to Dr. Shaw, as follows: take six ounces of copper, melting it in a wind furnace; add to it one ounce of zink : then stirring the whole well together, pour out the metal immediately.
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    gink

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A foolish or contemptible man.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1931 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Grace Hegger Lewis , title=Half a Loaf , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=189 , passage=Don't see a movie in it myself, but those Hollywood ginks will take anything. }}
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  • , year=1973 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Richard Cowper , title=Clone , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Doubleday , isbn= , page=33 , passage=No wonder the country's on its bloody knees! You ginks are a bloody disgrace to the human race!' }}
  • (slang) a fellow; person.
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  • , year=1914 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Mucker , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted. }}

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