Originally posted by Dichotomy
what, exactly, is a dINk?
I've heard of planks, pikeys, etc.., but dINk, is a new one on me.
I have used dink a few times, I always considered a dink as related to a dork.... however this is a good time to use websters...
several definitions of Dink
dink –noun dinghy. [Origin: 1900–05
dink –noun Tennis, Volleyball. a softly hit ball that falls just over the net. [Origin: 1935–40; imit., prob. influenced by dinky
dink –noun Slang: Disparaging. an Asian, esp. a Vietnamese.
[Origin: 1965–70, Americanism; cf. Australian slang dink Chinese person; perh. back formation from dinky, reinforced by rhyme with Chink]
dink –noun Informal. either partner of a married couple having two incomes and no children.
[Origin: 1985–90; d(ouble) i(ncome), n(o) k(ids)]
dink - Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with - sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32 bit architectures about 16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine." Probably derived from mainstream "dinky", which isn't sufficiently pejorative.
See macdink.
[The Jargon File]