shink

From Middle English shynken, schenken, schenchen (“to pour, pour a drink”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankijan, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Doublet of skink.

shink (third-person singular simple present shinks, present participle shinking, simple past and past participle shinked)

1. To pour or serve wine or beer; to skink.

Onomatopoeic. Compare shunk.

shink

1. The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc).
   • 2010, Donna Russo Morin, The Secret of the Glass, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 301:

     The shink of a blade drawn from its scabbard rent the air. The dim light of a wall torch flashed upon the steel. With a lunge in tierce, Riccoboni slashed at the small man by his side. Pasquale groped clumsily at his waist for his own sword […]

   • 2016 September 6, S. M. Stirling, The Desert and the Blade, Penguin, →ISBN, page 218:

     The men-at-arms knocked their visors down with the edges of their shields, a multiple metallic shink-shink sound, transformed from men to steel figures […]

   • 2022 November 18, Garrett Driggers, Tales of Teras: Adequate Abandonment, Garrett Driggers, →ISBN:

     Shink...Shink! The sword is drawn across the stone. The right angle, the right speed, and the right amount times ... blade from becoming dull, but.

   • 2023 April 18, Shannon Pemrick, Valkyrie Renewed, Shannon Pemrick, →ISBN:

     SHINK. SHINK. My sword blade slid smoothly against the whetstone. I lifted the blade and tested the sharpness before dripping more water on the stone and repeating the motions.

   1. In particular, the sound of a blade sliding into or out of something.
      • 2008 03, Christopher Clarke-Milton, Dawn of the Messiah Book1, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 190:

        SHINK! Maraki's sword impales the demon from behind.

      • 2015 August 18, Fujino Omori, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 3 (light novel), Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:

        Knocked off balance from Bell's charge, the cleaver was useless in defense. SHINK! The knife buried itself into the Minotaur's right hand, cutting flesh, bone and tendons alike.

      • 2019 March 26, Genevieve Iseult Eldredge, Rekindled: The Circuit Fae Nemesis Prequel - Novella 3.5, GirlyEngine Press, →ISBN:

        […] blades pop from its exterior. Shink! Shink! Shink, shink, shink! Dozens, hundreds, gleaming bright—just like the ones inside, only, these are coming for me. Like helicopter blades, they rotate, cutting through the air, whipping down at […]

      • 2021 August 31, Christian McKay Heidicker, Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City, Henry Holt and Company (BYR), →ISBN:

        SHINK! SHINK! SHINK! SHINK! The blades chopped the waterfall of cooked corn paste, spitting hot debris up into Dusty's fur. Her eyes were squeezed shut. Her ear was bleeding, her tail looked singed. And she was slipping. The […]

      • 2022 May 4, Preston Francis, The Fictionals and the Book Club Rebellion, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:

        Shink! The sound of a sword piercing through flesh.

      • 2024 January 11, Madelyn Lapierre, The Astro Chronicles, Fulton Books, Inc., →ISBN:

        He hit nearly all targets in bull's-eye, fought like a gladiator, and eventually there was a shink of his sword. Kenya realized what he hit. It was a boy, blond, with nearly white hair and pale skin.

shink (third-person singular simple present shinks, present participle shinking, simple past and past participle shinked)

1. (of metal) To slide with the shink sound of metal sliding.

• hinks, knish, Kinhs, Khins, Hinks