Etymology

bink

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Today it means: A bench. Full definition →

Middle English bink ← Old English benc ← Proto-West Germanic *banki
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bink · noun, verb1

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*bankiz
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*banki
  3. Old English · inherited frombenc“bench”
  4. Middle English · inherited frombenk
  5. Middle English · inherited frombink
  6. English todaybink

From Middle English bink, binke, variants of Middle English benk, benke, from Old English benc (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. More at bench.

bink · noun2

Clipping of binky.

bink · noun, verb3

Onomatopoeia

Words from the same roots

Proto-West Germanic*banki all →

bankbench

Proto-Germanic*bankiz all →

bankbenchbanquet

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.