pinko-grey

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English

Etymology

From pinko +‎ grey.

Adjective

pinko-grey (comparative more pinko-grey, superlative most pinko-grey)

  1. Of a colour between pink and grey; specifically, pertaining to Caucasian skin.
    • 1924 June 4, E M Forster, chapter VII, in A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, part I (Mosque), page 60:
      The remark that did him most harm at the club was a silly aside to the effect that the so-called white races are really pinko-grey.
    • 1964, The Canadian Forum, volumes 44-45, page 244:
      Vancouverites awoke one soggy, foggy morning this month to be reminded of another problem that won't go away either — the dislike of many people for neighbours coloured anything other than the approved dirty pinko-grey.
    • 2005, Kenneth Leech, Race, page 99:
      By this I do not, of course, mean the abandonment of the fact that many Christians are 'white', or, more accurately, pinko-grey, in their physical complexion.