pink

adj : similar to the natural color of pinks [syn: {pinkish}]

n 1: a light shade of red

2: any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus

cultivated for their fragrant flowers [syn: {garden pink}]

v 1: make light, repeated taps on a surface [syn: {tap}, {rap}, {knock}]

2: cut in a zig-zag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing

dink

/dink/ Said of a machine that has the {bitty box} nature; a

machine too small to be worth bothering with - sometimes the

system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from

an {MIT} hacker working on a {CP/M} system with 64K, in

reference to any {6502} system, then from fans of 32 bit

architectures about 16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work

on that dink machine." Probably derived from mainstream

"dinky", which isn't sufficiently pejorative.

See {macdink}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-10-31)