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English
Etymology
pink + -o, a variation of red (“Communist”, noun), as pink is a lighter, more diluted form.
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Noun
pinko (plural pinkos or pinkoes)
- (informal, often derogatory, chiefly US) A socialist, particularly one who is not wholly communist.
1934 October 22, “Gentlemen & Guttersnipes”, in Time Magazine, number 17, page 45:At Princeton a lone townsman cried "Down with Mussolini!" in the midst of a reception, was jostled by students, escorted off the campus. At Harvard the pinko National Students League protested to President Conant, but allowed the visitors to tour Cambridge in peace.
1947 November 30, Thomas F. Brady, quoting Bryan Foy, “Hollywood Divided”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:“I agree with the decision one hundred per cent,” he said. “And if I find any pinkos that I don't know about on my lot I'll get rid of them if I can. They don't even have to be Communists. I'll try to clean out any leftists.”
1966, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 136:He'd be on her ass in a microsecond, revoke her letters testamentary, they'd call her names, proclaim her through all Orange County as a redistributionist and pinko, slip the old man from Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus in as administrator de bonis non and so much baby for code, constellations, shadow-legatees.
2011 October 24, Archangel Michael, “The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy”, in Slashdot:Until society collectively starts using terminology like this effectively, all you'll end up with is a bunch of Commie Pinkos Stinking up parks around the country "Occupying" without a clear goal or message.
2014, Astra Taylor, quoting Kevin Kelly, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:Kelly reassures his readers that the people who run this emerging economy are not left-wing in any traditional sense. They are “more likely to be libertarians than commie pinkos,” he explains.
2020 December 14, Bryan Bruce, “10 years since the Child Poverty documentary, what’s changed?”, in The Daily Blog:Almost 10 years ago I made a documentary called Inside Child Poverty. Some people (largely members of John Key’s government) got very angry with me. I was a left wing pinko journo making this stuff up in an election year.
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Finnish
Etymology
Back-formation from pingottaa (“to stretch”).
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Noun
pinko (informal, derogatory)
- Synonym of hikipinko (“studious student”).
2022 June 22, Ulla Järvi, “Kuka selittäisi puritaaneille, että seksistä voi nauttia?”, in Yle:Olin koulussa pinko. Todistusnumeroilla oli minulle ennen kaikkea välinearvoa: pääsisin pois tylsästä kirkonkylästä opiskelemaan Tampereelle.- I was a swot at school. The grades on my diploma had, above all, a purpose as an instrument: they'd get me out of the boring rural village to study in Tampere.
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