Kink

Definition: Kink

Kink

Noun

1. A sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight.

Verb

1. Curl tightly, of hair.

2. Put a kink in.

3. Form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"; "The road curved".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "kink" was first used: 1678. (references)

Industry

Medicine

Metallurgy

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Kink

Caprice

Noun: caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase; capriciousness; Adjective: kink.

Complexity

Noun: complexity; complexness; Adjective: complexus; complication, implication; intricacy, intrication; perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil; (convolution); sleave, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels; kink, gnarl, knarl; webwork.

Convolution

Coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop, scallop, escalop; kink; ammonite, snakestone.

Curvature

Kink.

Physical Pain

Spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes; crick, thrill, convulsion, throe; throb. (agitation); pang; colic; kink.

Crosswords: Kink

Manx (double), Norwegian (crick), Swedish (kink, petulance).

The Kink of the Campus (1941)

Ko-Ko's Kink (1928)

Virgin Kink 19 (2001)

Kink (1999)

A Kink in the Picasso (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• All Comers: A Smorgasbord of Kink [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Beneath the Skins : The New Spirit and Politics of the Kink Community (reference)

• Kink and I (reference)

• The Kink Kollection (reference)

• Wizard of Id: The Fing Is a Kink! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• The Kink Kontroversy [UK Bonus Tracks] [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

• The Kink Kronikles (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "kink": kink band ♦ kink instability ♦ kink up. Additional references.

Beginning with "kink": kink-free.

Ending with "kink": anti-kink.

Albanian

ves (defect, habit, immorality, problem, vice), trill (caprice, crotchet, device, deviltry, fad, fancy, fantasy, freak, phantasy, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsy), tekë (caprice, fancy, freak, vagary, whim, whimsy), përdredhje (convolution, curl, Rick, sprain, squirm, torsion, turn, twist, wrench, wrick), onde, ngërth, ngërç (cramp), mbështjellje (convolution, covering, envelopment, lap, winding), dredhë (circumvolution, coil, contortion, convolution, Crimp, helix, hook, meanders, sinuosity, spiral, tendril, volute, whorl, winding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتل (curl, lay, rope, torque, torsion, twiddle, twine, twist), ‏منعطف (bend, bight, curve, serpentine, turn, turning, twist), ‏مشكلة (issue, labyrinth, nodus, nut, problem, question, snag, trouble, twister), ‏غرابة أطوار, ‏تعقد (complexity, complicate, complication, entanglement, snarl, tangle), ‏تعرقل, ‏تشنج الرقبة, ‏عقدة (clove, complex, ganglion, hitch, knob, knurl, loop, nub, tangle, umbo), ‏عدم توازن (maladjustment), ‏شذوذ (abecedarian, aberration, abnormality, anomaly, anomie, eccentricity, exception, oddity, quirk, sports), ‏شبك (pin, ravel, staple). (various references)

Bulgarian 

схващане (apprehension, comprehension, conception, cramp, grasp, idea, notion, opinion, outlook, perception, prehension, understanding, uptake, view), своеобразност, спънка (backset, balk, baulk, countercheck, cramp, difficulty, drawback, hindrance, hitch, hobble, impediment, interference, interruption, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, setback, shoal, stumbling block), чупка (bend, crease, Crinkle, return, traverse), чудатост (comicality, eccentricity, faddiness, peculiarity, quirk, singularity, strangeness, twist), гънка (circumvolution, cockle, corrugation, crease, doubling, fold, lap, plication, pocket, pucker, rugosity, rumple, wrinkle), недостатък (blemish, debit, defect, deficiency, demerit, disadvantage, disfiguration, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hole, imperfection, objection, shortcoming, vice, weakness), засечка (backlash, falter, fluff, hitch, misfire), ексцентричност (eccentricity, twist), премятане, прищявка (caprice, crotchet, fad, fizgig, maggot, megrim, vagary, whim, whimsy, whim-wham), извивка (bend, convolution, crook, curve, flection, flexion, fold, incurvation, indentation, return, sinuosity, sweep, tortuousity, twine, twist, wave, wind, winding). (various references)

Chinese 

� � (Badgered, Badgering, entwine, Kinked, Kinking). (various references)

Czech

kudrna, klièka (handle, hitch), výstřednost (eccentricity, extravagance, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, weirdness, wilderness), smyèka (knot, loop, noose, sling), oko (eye, mesh, noose, pip, snare, spot, springe, tarn), excentriènost. (various references)

Danish

knaek (chine, defect), kinke, fibersammenfiltring (snarl), boelger (buckle, burn, cobble, water mark, waviness). (various references)

Dutch

knik (break, buckle, buckling, crease, defect, fraction, knuckle, salient point). (various references)

Finnish

sykkyrä, mennä sykkyrään (become kinky, get tangled). (various references)

French

excentricité, anomalie, bouchon, coque, déséquilibré, déviation, enchevêtrement, aberration, entortiller, trotillement, jarret, n�"ud, perversion, problème, se friser, s'emmêler, entortillement. (various references)

German

knick (buckling, crack, crease, Crinkle, dog-ear, veer), Schleife (bow, bow tie, horse-shoe bend, lanyard, loop, ribbon, twisty bend), Knoten (bun, burl, hitch, kinks, knop, knot, knurl, knurls, lump, nodal, node, nodes, plot, snarl, to kink, to knot, tophus, tuber). (various references)

Greek 

κόμβοσ (bowline, hitch, junction, knob, knot, knurl, node, nub), συστροφή (contortion, torsion, twine, twirl, twist, wring), στρίψιμο (torsion, turn, twist), στρίψη (snarl, twist), γόνατο σιδηροτροχιάς (defect), ιδιοτροπία (caprice, crankiness, crotchetiness, faddiness, fancy, freak, maggot, moodiness, quirk, tetchiness, vagary, whim, whimsicalness, whimsy), μπερδεύω (baffle, bemuse, complicate, confound, confuse, enmesh, jumble, mix up, muddle), μονομανία (hobby, monomania, obsession), ζάρα (pucker, ruck, wrinkle), λόξα, τύλιγμα (furl, wrapping), τσαλάκωμα (wrinkling), τσίγκλιασμα (snarl), τυλίγω (close in on, coil, drape, enfold, engulf, enshroud, envelop, furl, roll up, wrap, wreathe). (various references)

Hebrew 

ש�'עון (absurdity, craziness, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, quirk, whim), קפריס�" (caprice, foible, vagary, whim), פתול (bend, coil, corded, curve, meander, torsion, twist, wrick), עקל (bandy, bow legged, knock kneed). (various references)

Hungarian

csomó (batch, bed, bunch, bundle, clod, clot, clump, cluster, gnarl, hitch, knag, knar, knob, knot, node, nodule, nub, nugget, parcel, Peck, pile, snag, snarl, snick, tie, tuft, wart), szeszély (caprice, fancy, fantasy, fit, maggot, tantrum, whim, whimsy), rögeszme (craze, crotchet, monomania, obsession), hurok (bight, bow, halter, hitch, knot, lobe, loop, noose, sling, slip knot, snare, snarl, springe), görcs (catalepsy, convulsion, cramp, Crick, fit, gnarl, joint, knot, spasm, wart). (various references)

Indonesian

belitan (association, coil, twist). (various references)

Italian

piegatura (beading, bend, bending, defect, fold, folding, plication), nodo (bond, Burl, crux, gnarl, heart, hitch, junction, knob, knot, knurl, loop, node, tangle, tie), ingobbatura (buckle, helical arrangement, screw dislocation, twist), groviglio di filato (snarl), capriccio (caprice, device, fad, fancy, freak, maggot, mood, sulkiness, vagary, whim, whimsy). (various references)

Manx

cur cassey ayn, carr (cab, cadence of voice; strain, car, lilt, van; tune, vicissitude). (various references)

Pig Latin

inkkay.(various references)

Portuguese

nó (bend, burl, joint, knur, knurl, knurr, node, nodosity, nodus, tie, tying), dar uma volta (take a walk), dobra (bend, crease, crinkle, crumple, double, folding, gather, lap, lappet, meander, plait, pleat, plica, ply, ruck, turnback, turn-down, turnover, winding, wrinkle), emaranhamento (entanglement, matting, ravel, snarl, tangle), enroscamento (meander, wind, winding), enroscar (twine, twist), esquisitice (oddity), formar um nó, cãimbra, mania (crank, crotchet, fad, furor, furore, habit, hang-up, mania), veneta (freak, humor, humour, maggot, whim), preconceito (bias, preconception, prejudgement, prejudice, preoccupation, prepossession), prega (cockle, crease, crumple, double, flute, gather, plait, pleat, ply, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruckle, shir, shirr, tuck, wrinkle), retorcer (contort, strain, tousle, twine, twist, wring), ruga transversal, torção (bent, twist), torcer (bend, contort, convolute, screw, spin, sprain, strain, tweak, twiddle, twine, twirl, twist, warp, wind, wrench, wrick, wring, writhe), torcicolo (crick, stiff neck, torticollis), garrote (garotte, garrotte). (various references)

Romanian

zuluf (forelock, kinkle, link), se încurca (get mixed), rãsuciturã, nod (bend, bow, Burl, gnarl, half-hitch, joint, knar, knob, knot, knurl, loop, lump, node, nodosity, noose, snub), face un nod (bind, knot), face noduri (knot), ciudãţenie (behavior, behaviour, curio, curiosity, eccentricity, extravagance, freak, oddity, oddment, oddness, originality, peculiarity, queerness, quip, singularity, strangeness, vagary, whim, whimsicality), cârcel (cramp, tendril), încovoiere (bend, crook, flexure, inflexion, sag, stoop). (various references)

Russian 

судорога (convulsion, cramp, crick, spasm, spastics, twitch), странность (oddity, strangeness, weirdness), узел (bundle, fardel, hitch, hub, joint, junction, knar, knot, knur, knurl, node, nodes, pack, tie, tubercle, unit), отклонение жилы, заскок, загиб (downturn, offset, turnup), причуда (antics, caprice, crank, fad, foible, freak, maggot, vagary, whimsy), перекручивание (torsion), перегиб (crest), петля (ansa, buttonhole, hinge, hitch, loop, mesh, noose, self-loop, stitch, tag). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kovrdža (curl, friz, frizz), teškoća (ado, cumber, difficulty, rub), nastranost (eccentricity, extravagance, oddity, quaintness, queerness, twist, weirdness), grč (cramp, spasm). (various references)

Spanish

pliegue (crease, fold, plait, pleat, plication, pucker, tuck). (various references)

Swedish

hugskott (caprice, freak, whim), fnurra. (various references)

Turkish

kramp (charley horse, cramp), kapris (caprice, fancy, fit, freak, vagary, waywardness, whim, whimsey, whimsy), tutulma (attack, being held, Crick, eclipse, fastening, go, immersion, popularity), ip dolaşması, ilginçlik (being interesting, quaintness), garip düşünce, dolaştırmak (circulate, dash, embrangle, entangle, entwine, foul, foul up, hand on, intwine, knot, Ravel, take for a walk, tangle, trot round, walk, walk about, walk around, walk out), dolaşmak (air oneself, bat around, be afloat, become tangled, browse around, circuit, circulate, float, flow, go about, go around, go for a jaunt, go for a stroll, go for a walk, go on a jaunt, hike, itinerate, jaunt, jauntiness, knot, look round, mat, mosey, perambulate, range, roam, rove, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, travel, walk, walk about, walk around, wander), dolaşma (circuit, going around, implication, perambulation, ride, roam, Sally, walkabout, winding), değişiklik (alteration, change, chopping, diversification, innovation, modification, recast, shift, variance, variegation, variety, vicissitude). (various references)

Ukrainian

утворювати петлю, чудити (freak), кучері (frizz), звихнення, заскок, перекручуватися, перекручувати (bedevil, contort, deform, disguise, distort, garble, misconstrue, mutilate, pervert, sophisticate, torture, travesty, warp, wrest, wring), петля (button hole, loop, necklace, noose, ply, stitch, tag, twitch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nút (knot, node), chỗ thắt nút (snarl). (various references)

kink. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "kink": kinkajou, kinkajous, kinked, kinkier, kinkiest, kinkily, kinkiness, kinkinesses, kinking, kinks, kinky. (additional references)

Words ending with "kink": skink, unkink. (additional references)

Words containing "kink": skinked, skinker, skinkers, skinking, skinks, unkinked, unkinking, unkinks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Kink" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cinc, cink, Kahk, kak, kerk, kewk, kiak, kikni, kiku, kimn, kinch, Kincl, Kinh, kini, kinko, kinl, Kinm, kinn, kinq, kint, kinu, kinx, kiny, Kinz, Kioni, Klinck, klinik, kniv, knix, kniz, koin, konak, konk, Kufncd, Kuik, Kuini, kyn, vink. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ink, kin.

-2 letters: in.

+1 letter: kinks, kinky, skink.

+2 letters: kinked, skinks, unkink.

+3 letters: inklike, kecking, keeking, kicking, kidskin, kinfolk, kinkier, kinkily, kinking, kipskin, kirkman, kirkmen, konking, skinked, skinker, unkinks, yakking, yukking.

+4 letters: buckskin, kakiemon, kayaking, keckling, kidskins, kinfolks, kinglike, kinkajou, kinkiest, kinsfolk, kipskins, knacking, knickers, knoblike, knocking, knotlike, kolinski, kolinsky, linkwork, necklike, nicknack, nooklike, skinkers, skinking, skinlike, skulking, skunking, tanklike, trekking, unkinked.