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Fink   /fɪŋk/   Listen
Fink

verb
1.
Take the place of work of someone on strike.  Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab.
2.
Confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure.  Synonyms: confess, squeal.






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"Fink" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I fink," said Dolly, "old Mrs. Spicture shall bring old Granny Marrowbone back wiv her when she comes back and sets in her harm-chair wiv scushions, and Mrs. Burr cuts the reel cake, wiv splums, in sloyces, in big sloyces and little sloyces, and Mrs. Burr pawses milluck in my little ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... yew." The reproach has been made that many of Freytag's characters are too much alike. He has distinct types which repeat themselves both in the novels and in the plays. George Saalfeld in Valentine, for instance, is strikingly like Bolz in The Journalists or Fink in Debit and Credit. Freytag's answer to such objections was that an author, like any other artist, must work from models, which he is not obliged constantly to change. The feeling for the solidarity of the arts was very strong with him. He practically abandoned ...
— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

... fink of this, sar, and when you go on shore you take Mesty wid you. He sarve you well, Massa Easy, long as he live, by de holy St Patrick. And den, Massa Easy, you marry wife—hab pickaninny—lib like gentleman. You tink of ...
— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Frederick Marryat

... his companions for hours after they have passed it. The author is indebted to Morgan Neville, Esq., for the following account of the Island and its unfortunate owner. Mr. Neville's admirable tale of Mike Fink, and his other sketches, have created in the public an appetite for more, which they have long hoped he would be induced to gratify, with longer and more frequent productions; or, at least, that he would collect what he ...
— The Emigrant - or Reflections While Descending the Ohio • Frederick William Thomas



Words linked to "Fink" :   work, informer, do work, acknowledge, squealer, blabber, betrayer, admit, scab, sneaker



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