Other forms: pinks
Pink is the light colour between red and white. Blossom, a flamingo, the inside of a shell.
It is red with white added, and English treats it as a colour in its own right rather than as pale red, which not every language does. It carries a great deal of cultural freight for something so simple, having been assigned to girls only in the last century or so. The word gives us several fixed phrases: in the pink means in excellent health, and tickled pink means delighted. There is also a garden flower called a pink, which is where the colour got its name.
1nounpinkThe pale colour between red and white.~40%
“The walls were painted a soft pink.”
2adjectivecolourOf that colour.~60%
“She wore a pink scarf.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 10 sentences found in the wild and placed 10 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Origin unknown; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“to blink”) or the English verb pink#Etymology 6 from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pink#Etymology 4. An earlier word for similar flesh-like colors, mostly displaced by pink, was incarnation (1300s; see Etymonline) and carnation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA