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bink¹

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

Where it comes from

From Middle English bink, binke, variants of Middle English benk, benke, from Old English benc (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. More at bench.

noun binks

  1. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal A bench. He bouns him to the house, An' sits him doon upo' the bink, An' plaits a theet, or mends a mink, To sair an aifter use .
  2. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal A table or similar surface for laying out items. According to the most painstaking among our etymologist, the name was first conferred upon one who, in his attendance upon weddings and other convivial occasions, rendered himself so agreeable to the company by his skill in whistling, that he was allowed to sit at the bink, or board , and partake of
  3. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal A sideboard or shelf unit for holding dishes. We have it in a manuscript; the good-man keeps it, as we think, Behind a dish, upon the bink.
  4. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal A mountain ledge. Up thro' the cleughs, where bink on bink was set, Scrambling wi' hands and feet she taks the gate,
  5. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal A long cut in peat moss, marking a section from which blocks of peat are cut. They carry on the section, or the bink as they term it, of a convenient depth for easier cutting, frequently using the moss of least value above, and leaving that which is of much greater value.
  6. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal A hive. This splendid attire, however, saves them not from being rudely handled; and we remember the day when an artificial bink, that is , a little box made of clay , with a piece of glass at one end , and a sprinkling of sugar at the other , contained as many captives in proportion to its size as the blac

verb binks · binking · binked

  1. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal To shelter or become trapped on a ledge or crag. On June 2nd, the last day of this season, Bowman spent six hours extricating as many hounds who had got themselves binked on Catle Crag in Mardale.
  2. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal To cut a bink in peat moss. On June last he caused his servants cast a number of "peittis for elding unto his hous in the mosse of belonging to him heritablie, and they having binked the same and left thame in the mosse , " returned home to their master's house at night .

bink²

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

Where it comes from

Clipping of binky.

noun binks

  1. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal A pacifier. Even though we don't agree with the practice of the use of the bink in our house, Gideon was an exception.

bink³

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

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Onomatopoeia

noun binks

  1. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal A musical, percussive noise; plink. The knob turned—.bink, bink, bink, on the treble keys .

verb binks · binking · binked

  1. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal To make a bink noise. My tinny typing binked.
  2. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal To poke lightly. It didn't hurt, not at all, but at that moment, as that ballpoint binked my chest, something binked inside my head.
  3. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal To win, especially a substantial amount due to luck.

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@misc{bink_2026,
  title = {bink},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bink},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}