Dink vs. Pink — What's the Difference?

A drop shot.

Pink is a color that is a pale tint of red and is named after a flower of the same name. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century.

A stupid, annoying, or contemptible person.

Of a colour intermediate between red and white, as of coral or salmon

Used as a disparaging term for a Vietnamese person, especially during the Vietnam War.

Having or showing left-wing tendencies

A member of a couple who both hold jobs and have no children.

Of or associated with homosexuals

(tennis) A soft drop shot.

Pink colour, pigment, or material

(pickleball) A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.

The best condition or degree

(soccer) A light chip; a chipped pass or shot

A herbaceous Eurasian plant with sweet-smelling pink or white flowers and slender, typically grey-green leaves.

A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.

A small square-rigged sailing ship, typically with a narrow, overhanging stern.

A North Vietnamese soldier.

A yellowish lake pigment made by combining vegetable colouring matter with a white base.

(US) double income no kids.

Become pink

Hard work, especially one's share of a task.

Shear (a sheep) so closely that the colour of the skin is visible

A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.

Cut a scalloped or zigzag edge on

The penis.

Decorate

A foolish or contemptible person.

(of a vehicle engine) make a series of rattling sounds as a result of over-rapid combustion of the fuel–air mixture in the cylinders

(tennis) To play a soft drop shot.

Any of a group of colors reddish in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation.

(pickleball) To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.

Any of various plants of the genus Dianthus, such as sweet William, often cultivated for their showy, fragrant, usually pink, red, or white flowers. Also called dianthus.

(football) To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.

Any of several other plants in the pink family, such as the wild pink.

To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.

A flower of any of these plants.

Honest, fair, true.

The highest or best degree

Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.

Light-colored trousers formerly worn as part of the winter semidress uniform by US Army officers.

Finely dressed, elegant; neat.

The scarlet coat worn by fox hunters.

Alternative spelling of dinq

(Slang)A pinko.

Honestly, truly.

A small sailing vessel with a sharply narrowed stern and an overhanging transom.

Trim; neat.

Of the color pink.

To deck; - often with out or up.

(Slang)Having moderately leftist political opinions.

Either of a married couple who both are employed and have no children. The term is often used as the prototype of midde-class persons with higher-than-average disposable income.

To stab lightly with a pointed weapon; prick.

A ball hit softly that falls to the ground just beyond the net.

To decorate with a perforated pattern.

An Asian person, especially a Vietnamese; - used contemptuously, considered disparaging and offensive.

To cut with pinking shears.

A couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids)

(regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.

A soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net

(regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.

A narrow boat.

(obsolete) A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.

(obsolete) A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.

(obsolete) A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.

Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.

(dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.

(color) The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.

Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.

(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.

(slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.

(slang) The vagina or vulva.

(historical) Any of various lake#Etymology 4 pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.

To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.

To prick with a sword.

To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.

(intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.

(transitive) To turn (something) pink.

(transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.

Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).

Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.

(obsolete) To wink; to blink.

Having a colour between red and white; pale red.

Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.

Having conjunctivitis.

(obsolete) By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.

(informal) Relating to women or girls.

(informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.

(obsolete) Half-shut; winking.

A vessel with a very narrow stern; - called also pinky.

A stab.

A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.

A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; - so called from the common color of the flower.

Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.

The European minnow; - so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.

To wink; to blink.

To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.

To stab; to pierce as with a sword.

To choose; to cull; to pick out.

Half-shut; winking.

Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

A light shade of red

Any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers

Make light, repeated taps on a surface;

Sound like a car engine that is firing too early;

Cut in a zig-zag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing

Of a light shade of red