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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
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PRONUNCIATION:  pngk
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: pinked, pink·ing, pinks
1. To stab lightly with a pointed weapon; prick. 2. To decorate with a perforated pattern. 3. To cut with pinking shears.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English pingen, pinken, to push, prick, from Old English pyngan, from Latin pungere. See peuk- in Appendix I.
 
 
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