pinker (pingker)

[ pinkety (ping'ket-i), n.; pl. pinketies (-iz). [Imitative; as pink5 + -ety, with dim. force.] The chaffinch, Fringilla cœlebs. [Prov. Eng.] pink-eyel (pingk'i), n. [ pink-eye2 (pingk'i), n. [ belong to pink2. Cf. pinky2.] A small eye. It was a sport very pleasaunt of theeze beastz, to see the bear with his pink nyez leering after his enmiez approach. Laneham, Letter from Kenilworth. ( Nares.) Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne. Shak ., A. and C., ii. 7. 121.