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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈkɪŋk/, [ˈkʰɪŋk]
  • • (Upper Midwestern 米国発音, Western 米国発音, Canada, pre-/ŋ/ tensing) IPA: /ˈkiŋk/, [ˈkʰiŋk]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkɪ̝ŋk/, [ˈkʰɪ̝ŋk]
• 韻: -ɪŋk
• ハイフネーション: kink

語源 1

From 中期英語 kinken, kynken, from 古期英語 *cincian (attested in cincung), from Proto-West Germanic *kinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *kinkōną (“to laugh”), from Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock, jeer, deride”), related to 古期英語 canc (“jeering, scorn, derision”). Cognate with Dutch kinken (“to kink, cough”).

別の表記

• chink

動詞

kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)

1. To laugh loudly.
2. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.

名詞

kink (plural kinks)

1. (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.

語源 2

From Dutch kink (“a twist or curl in a rope”), from Proto-Germanic *kenk-, *keng- (“to bend, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gengʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid, weave”). Compare Saterland Frisian Kink (“twist or entanglement in a rope or cord”), Middle Low German kinke (“spiral screw, coil”), Old Norse kikna (“to bend backwards, sink at the knee”), Icelandic kengur (“a bend or bight; a metal crook”). Probably related to kick.

別の表記

• k1nk, k!nk, k/nk, k*nk (bowdlerizations)

名詞

kink (countable and uncountable, plural kinks)

1. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.

   We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.

2. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.

   They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.

3. An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
   • 1856, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, The Sparrowgrass Papers:

     Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.

   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 17:

     "Still, boozers can be worked sometimes. Most people can, if you encourage their kink. One old woman staked me for three months because she got such a kick out of scandalmongering the neighbours to me."

4. Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.

   Synonym: paraphilia

   Antonym: normophilia

   • 1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere):

     No more kink. Nothing. Finito. Got it?

   • 2013, Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore, page 13:

     To top it all off, Lynn is into kink. Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.

5. A person with peculiar sexual tastes.

   Synonym: kinkster

   • 1985, John Dann MacDonald, Five Complete Travis McGee Novels, page 254:

     "What do they think you know?"
     "No more than I've told you. That he's a kink. He rapes people and kills people and spends too much money and flies grass in."

   • 2013, James Hadley Chase, A Can of Worms:

     “He's a kink. All I have to do is toss off my clothes and dance around his apartment while he sits and drools.”

6. Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.
7. (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.

派生語

参考

• BDSM
• fetish

動詞

kink (third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)

1. (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
2. (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.

派生語

参照

アナグラム

• Knik