mink
pronunciation
How to pronounce mink in British English:
UK [mɪŋk]
How to pronounce mink in American English:
US [mɪŋk]
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- Noun:
- the expensive fur of a mink
- fur coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks
- slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur
Word Origin
- mink (n.)
- early 15c., "skin or fur of the mink," from a Scandinavian source (compare Swedish menk "a stinking animal in Finland"). Applied in English to the animal itself from 1620s.
Example
- 1. Denmark alone produces 40 % of the global supply of mink pelts .
- 2. The mink , by contrast , will remain at large for years , perhaps millennia .
- 3. Buyers can virtually customise their own cube jacket in any number of combinations , adding inner mink vests , fox cuffs and hooded body warmers .
- 4. Feral american mink on the continent are even more damaging than they are here , as they drive out the endangered european mink .
- 5. Until then , its citizens will continue to pay more to eradicate mink than they make from breeding them .