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31chink — English has three words chink. The one denoting the sharp metallic sound [16] is purely onomatopoeic. The one meaning ‘small hole’ [16] is something of a mystery, but it may be an alteration of chine ‘fissure’ [14] (best known today as the term… …
32chink — English has three words chink. The one denoting the sharp metallic sound [16] is purely onomatopoeic. The one meaning ‘small hole’ [16] is something of a mystery, but it may be an alteration of chine ‘fissure’ [14] (best known today as the term… …
33chink — 1. noun /tʃɪŋk/ a) A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack. Yet I did not give way, but settled to wait for the dawn, which must, I knew, be now at hand; for then I thought enough light would come through the chinks of the tomb above to show… …
34chink — chink1 noun 1》 a narrow opening or crack. 2》 a beam of light admitted by a chink. Origin C16: related to chine2. chink2 verb make a light, high pitched ringing sound, as of glasses or coins striking together. noun a high pitched ringing sound.… …
35chink — 1. noun a chink in the curtains Syn: opening, gap, space, hole, aperture, crack, fissure, crevice, cranny, cleft, split, slit, slot 2. verb the glasses chinked Syn: jingle …
36chink — noun a chink in the curtains Syn: gap, crack, space, hole, aperture, fissure, cranny, cleft, split, slit …
37chink — I. /tʃɪŋk / (say chingk) noun 1. a crack, cleft, or fissure. 2. a narrow opening. –verb (t) 3. Originally US to fill up chinks in (a log wall) as with daub. –phrase 4. a chink in one s armour, a point at which one is emotionally or otherwise… …
38Chink-a-chink — Chink a chink, is a magic trick in which four small items arranged in square formation are moved around a close up mat with just the wave of the magician s bare hands. Objects appear to cross the mat without the magician s hands crossing the mat …
39Chink Martin — Chink Abraham, better known as Chink Martin (June 10, 1886, New Orleans January 7, 1981, New Orleans) was an American jazz tubist. Martin played guitar in his youth before settling on tuba. He played with Papa Jack Laine s Reliance Brass Band… …
40Chink Crossin — Datos personales Nombre completo Francis P. Crossin Apodo Chink Nacimiento Luzerne, Pennsylvania …
