chink
chink 英 [tʃɪŋk] 美 [tʃɪŋk]
n. 裂缝；叮当声；裂口 vi. 叮当响 vt. 使叮当响
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- A chink is a very narrow opening or crack. A chink in your bedroom curtains might let enough early morning sunlight in that you'll wake up before your alarm goes off.
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- n. 裂缝；叮当声；裂口
- vi. 叮当响
- vt. 使叮当响
- Chink (n.2) "a Chinese person," 1901, derogatory, perhaps derived somehow from China, or else from chink (n.1) with reference to eye shape.
- chink (n.1) "a split, crack," 1530s, with unetymological -k + Middle English chine (and replacing this word) "fissure, narrow valley," from Old English cinu, cine "fissure," which is related to cinan "to crack, split, gape," a common Germanic word (compare Old Saxon and Old High German kinan, Gothic uskeinan, German keimen "to germinate;" Middle Dutch kene, Old Saxon kin, German Keim "germ"). The connection being in the notion of bursting open.
- chink (n.3) "sharp, clear, metallic sound" (especially of coin), 1580s, probably imitative. As a verb from 1580s. Related: Chinked; chinking.
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