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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 184903, member: 33&quot;]And just in case, here is what the OED says about the verb &quot;pink&quot; in the sense mentioned above.</p><p><br /></p><p>pink, v.1</p><p><br /></p><p>Pronunciation:&nbsp; Brit.&nbsp; &nbsp; /pɪŋk/ ,&nbsp; U.S.&nbsp; /pɪŋk/</p><p>Forms:&nbsp; lME–15 pynke, 15 pinke, 15 pynck, 15 pyncke, 15 pynk, 15–17 pinck, 15– ... (Show More)</p><p>Frequency (in current use):&nbsp; </p><p>Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymon: ping v.1</p><p>Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably ultimately imitative, or perhaps a variant of ping v.1... (Show More)</p><p>I. Senses related to cutting or piercing.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1. trans. In early use: to ornament (cloth or leather) by cutting or punching eyelet holes, slits, etc., esp. to display a contrasting lining or undergarment; to perforate. In later use: to cut a scalloped or zigzag edge on (a piece of fabric). Also with out. Also fig.</p><p><br /></p><p>1486&nbsp;&nbsp; in W. Campbell Materials for Hist. Reign Henry VII (1873) I. 266&nbsp;&nbsp; Item, a gowne of cloth of golde, with ermyns, pynked.</p><p>1576&nbsp;&nbsp; T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. iv. f. 27v,&nbsp;&nbsp; Their bodyes pinked ful of scabs.</p><p>1596&nbsp;&nbsp; T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Pv,&nbsp;&nbsp; A sute made of..white canuas pinkt vpon cotton.</p><p>1600&nbsp;&nbsp; T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. B4v,&nbsp;&nbsp; Here take this paire of shooes cut out by Hodge,..seam&#039;d by my selfe, Made vp and pinckt, with letters for thy name.</p><p>1666&nbsp;&nbsp; S. Pepys Diary 15 Oct. (1972) VII. 324&nbsp;&nbsp; A long Cassocke..of black cloth and pinked with white silk under it.</p><p>1719&nbsp;&nbsp; in T. D&#039;Urfey Wit &amp; Mirth IV. 5&nbsp;&nbsp; His skin did look like Sattin Pinck&#039;d, With Gashes many a score.</p><p>1768&nbsp;&nbsp; J. Byron Narr. Patagonia 225&nbsp;&nbsp; Their shoes are pinked and cut.</p><p>c1800&nbsp;&nbsp; E. C. Knight Autobiogr. I. 16&nbsp;&nbsp; His father kept a shop, and he was obliged to pink shrouds.</p><p>1893&nbsp;&nbsp; Lady 17 Aug. 172/3&nbsp;&nbsp; The edge may be pinked-out in the simple notches known as the ‘saw’ pattern.</p><p>1903&nbsp;&nbsp; Daily Chron. 30 May 8/4&nbsp;&nbsp; Such silk can be bought ready ‘pinked’ at the edges.</p><p>1980&nbsp;&nbsp; R. D. Bent &amp; J. L. McKinley Aircraft Maintenance &amp; Repair (ed. 4) iv. 108/2&nbsp;&nbsp; The edges are pinked (cut with a saw-toothed edge)..to reduce the tendency to ravel.</p><p>(Hide quotations)</p><p><br /></p><p>2.</p><p><br /></p><p>†a. intr. To make or punch holes; to stab. Obs. rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>1530&nbsp;&nbsp; J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 658/1,&nbsp;&nbsp; I pynke. [No Fr.]</p><p>a1764&nbsp;&nbsp; R. Lloyd Epist. to C. Churchill in Poet. Wks. (1774) II. 28&nbsp;&nbsp; Each cool wit would meet his brother, To pink and tilt at one another.</p><p>1867&nbsp;&nbsp; W. H. Smyth &amp; E. Belcher Sailor&#039;s Word-bk.&nbsp;&nbsp; To Pink,..to stab, as, between casks, to detect men stowed away.</p><p>(Hide quotations)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>b. trans. To pierce, stab, or prick with a pointed weapon or instrument.</p><p><br /></p><p>1597&nbsp;&nbsp; Trimming of T. Nashe sig. Gv,&nbsp;&nbsp; In wounds thy shalt exceed Cassanus which was so pittifully pinked of his own Schollers.</p><p>1601&nbsp;&nbsp; B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. iv. sig. H2v,&nbsp;&nbsp; By my hand I will pinck thy flesh full of holes with my rapier for this.</p><p>a1669&nbsp;&nbsp; H. Foulis Hist. Romish Treasons (1671) vi. ii. 356&nbsp;&nbsp; Cutting and pinking his body with their swords.</p><p>1716&nbsp;&nbsp; J. Addison Drummer iv. 42&nbsp;&nbsp; One of them pink&#039;d t&#039;other in a Duel.</p><p>1787&nbsp;&nbsp; W. Beckford Portuguese Jrnl. 11Oct. (1954) 222&nbsp;&nbsp; The astrologer appears very busy..pinking their eyes with a gigantic pair of black compasses.</p><p>1823&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Peveril IV. vii. 158,&nbsp;&nbsp; I would I had pinked one of the knaves at least.</p><p>1898&nbsp;&nbsp; Argosy July 593&nbsp;&nbsp; One of them pinked me in the shoulder before I rode into the woods.</p><p>1938&nbsp;&nbsp; Life 6 June 25/2 (caption)&nbsp; &nbsp; Bernstein attacks with spirit... He seems to let down his guard and Bourdet rushes in, lunging unwarily. Bernstein pinks him neatly in the arm.</p><p>1997&nbsp;&nbsp; Nature 2 Jan. 14/1&nbsp;&nbsp; James Joseph Sylvester,..notable for his work on invariants and for pinking a few anti-semitic undergraduates with his sword cane.</p><p>(Hide quotations)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>c. trans. To pierce, nick, or hit with a bullet; (in later use also) to shoot with a light gun. Also intr.</p><p><br /></p><p>1661&nbsp;&nbsp; J. Ogilby Entertainm. Charles II 19&nbsp;&nbsp; With Bullets pink Their Quarters untill they sink.</p><p>1667&nbsp;&nbsp; G. Rawdon Let. 10 Aug. in Conway Lett. (1992) v. 286&nbsp;&nbsp; He hath found 2 fatt buck dead... One of them seemed to have been pincked with a dagg.</p><p>1859&nbsp;&nbsp; C. W. Tayleure Boy Martyrs of Sept. 12th, 1814 ii. v. 20&nbsp;&nbsp; Dan: Whew! that&#039;s a run, Harry. Harry: Well, we pinked two of &#039;em.</p><p>1864&nbsp;&nbsp; ‘English Combatant’ Battle-fields of South xxviii. 396&nbsp;&nbsp; You don&#039;t mean to say they have ‘pinked’ you at last?</p><p>1931&nbsp;&nbsp; R. Campbell Georgiad i. 14&nbsp;&nbsp; ‘Onoto’—guns, As sported by Chicago&#039;s crooked sons, Able, at once, to..pink a stray policeman in the neck.</p><p>1950&nbsp;&nbsp; N.Y. Times 30 Dec. 27/1&nbsp;&nbsp; Wall has been the victim of three attempted assassinations, in two of which he was ‘pinked’, as he expressed it.</p><p>2003&nbsp;&nbsp; Timaru (N.Z.) Herald (Nexis) 25 Apr. 2&nbsp;&nbsp; A Turkish sniper ‘pinked’ him, but the bullet went right through.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>†d. trans. to pink (a person&#039;s) jacket (also doublet): to stab or wound a person with a rapier or other pointed weapon. Cf. sense 2b. Obs.</p><p>With play on sense 1.</p><p><br /></p><p>[1615&nbsp;&nbsp; S. Rowlands Melancholie Knight 5&nbsp;&nbsp; If he presume to aske my worship chinke, With poniard point his doublet Ile be pinke.]</p><p>1673&nbsp;&nbsp; H. N. Payne Morning Ramble 57,&nbsp;&nbsp; I think I had best fall to Queries about the Quarrel—a way many a Young Gallant hath prevented the pinking his Doublet by.</p><p>1684&nbsp;&nbsp; Voy. Capt. Sharp 45&nbsp;&nbsp; But as soon as we began to pink some of their Jackets for them with our Fuzees, they got out of our reach.</p><p>1711&nbsp;&nbsp; E. Ward Life Don Quixote I. 68&nbsp;&nbsp; And with this Weapon pink his Jacket, Unless he instantly agrees To ask your Pardon on his Knees.</p><p>1730&nbsp;&nbsp; C. Coffey Female Parson iii. i. 39&nbsp;&nbsp; And if you don&#039;t draw and defend your self Mr. Powderpate, I shall pink your Doublet for you.</p><p>1735&nbsp;&nbsp; Swift Full &amp; True Acct. Execution W. Wood in Wks. IV. 245,&nbsp;&nbsp; 3d. Taylor. I&#039;ll pink his Doublet.</p><p>1859&nbsp;&nbsp; W. G. Simms Cassique of Kiawah xlv. 465&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ll pink his jacket for him if he gives me a chance!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>e. trans. To strike, hit, beat; spec. (Boxing slang) to strike with the fist so as to break the skin or leave a visible mark. Also intr. Now rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>1810&nbsp;&nbsp; Sporting Mag. 36 44&nbsp;&nbsp; Hall was without science, and Ballard pinked his head.</p><p>1829&nbsp;&nbsp; P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 232&nbsp;&nbsp; Burn pinked his opponent with dexterity, and retreated.</p><p>1880&nbsp;&nbsp; J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) (at cited word),&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ll pink ye for that yet.</p><p>1897&nbsp;&nbsp; G. Bartram People of Clopton 19&nbsp;&nbsp; Knocking him about like a shuttle-cock and pinking him until he was drenched with gore.</p><p>1979&nbsp;&nbsp; E. Newman Sunday Punch v. 36&nbsp;&nbsp; He pinked with his left and crossed occasionally with his right.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>†3. trans. To cut or puncture (the skin) by way of personal adornment; to tattoo. Obs. (arch. in later use).</p><p><br /></p><p>1611&nbsp;&nbsp; J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. 182&nbsp;&nbsp; Our Picts whose bodies sliced and pinked be an artificiall punchion, did suck in the iuice of the stayning herb.</p><p>1634&nbsp;&nbsp; T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 24&nbsp;&nbsp; To seeme more amiable, [the women] are pinckt and cut in seuerall shapes, on face, armes, and thighes.</p><p>1665&nbsp;&nbsp; R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xlii. 85&nbsp;&nbsp; Both men and women hideously slash their flesh in sundry forms; their brows, noses, cheeks, arms, breasts..and legs, are pinkt, and cut in more admirable (than amiable) manner.</p><p>1741&nbsp;&nbsp; tr. Marquis d&#039;Argens Chinese Lett. xxx. 221&nbsp;&nbsp; The Tunguses have the Skin of their Foreheads and Cheeks pink&#039;d in the manner of Embroidery.</p><p>1753&nbsp;&nbsp; T. Salmon Universal Traveller II. 358/2&nbsp;&nbsp; The Children go naked till they are eight or nine Years old, and some of them are pinked in their Faces and Breasts for Ornament.</p><p>1855&nbsp;&nbsp; C. Kingsley Westward Ho! (1903) vii. 125&nbsp;&nbsp; The fellow is pinked all over in heathen patterns, and as brown as a filbert.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>II. Senses relating to clothing or adornment. Cf. prink n.2</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>4. trans. To adorn, beautify; to deck, trick out. Also with up. In later use chiefly Sc.</p><p><br /></p><p>1558&nbsp;&nbsp; T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos iv. sig. I.ivv,&nbsp;&nbsp; This pranking Paris fyne with mates of beardles kynde..With grekishe wymple pynkyd womanlyke.</p><p>1577&nbsp;&nbsp; M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. v. xvi. 90&nbsp;&nbsp; Is it seemly for a Prophete neatly to pyncke and gingerly to sett forthe himselfe?</p><p>1725&nbsp;&nbsp; R. Bradley Chomel&#039;s Dictionaire Œconomique at Lily,&nbsp;&nbsp; The Flowers..are..crooked, purpled, and pink&#039;d with certain red Spots, they smell sweatly and please the Sight.</p><p>1755&nbsp;&nbsp; T. Smollett tr. Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. xxiv. 390&nbsp;&nbsp; He returned, in the garb of a soldier, pinked up in a thousand colours, and bedecked with a power of glass toys and slender chains of steel.</p><p>1866&nbsp;&nbsp; W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 126&nbsp;&nbsp; She pinkit hirsel&#039; oot in a&#039; &#039;ir best.</p><p>1892&nbsp;&nbsp; Temple Bar Apr. 539&nbsp;&nbsp; April..pink&#039;d the earth with flowers.</p><p>1918&nbsp;&nbsp; T. Manson Humours of Peat Comm. 43&nbsp;&nbsp; What wid Magnie Moad say whin I cam alang da hoose penkid up as prood as a woman?</p><p>1924&nbsp;&nbsp; T. Manson Peat Comm. 51&nbsp;&nbsp; Dir edder getting things ta denk an penk demsells wi, or dan dir helpin idders dat wye.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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