Used in a Sentence

pinkie

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pinkie.

Editorial note

Sure, but now our hypothetical system-gamer is dipping a pinkie toe into the muddy waters of tax fraud.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pinkie gathered in one view.

noun

The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh

noun

A locality and historical house in Inveresk parish, East Lothian, Scotland.

noun

(informal) A little finger, the finger furthest on a hand from the thumb.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pinkie.

noun

A locality and historical house in Inveresk parish, East Lothian, Scotland.

noun

(informal) A little finger, the finger furthest on a hand from the thumb.

noun

(informal, less commonly) A little toe, the toe furthest on a foot from the big toe.

Example sentences

1

Sure, but now our hypothetical system-gamer is dipping a pinkie toe into the muddy waters of tax fraud.

2

M1: [Puts pinkie finger to the corner of his mouth] Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a day!

3

You're not the first to suspect that Maud and Pinkie Pie were intended to represent Aspergers and Williams syndrome.

4

So, what else do they do that makes Google want to pay $3+ billion (pinkie to lip) for Nest?

5

But nobody denies that sandboxing is a powerful defense because Pinkie Pie found some sandbox escapes in the Pwnium contest.

6

Although it does use a pinkie, it's a nice hand-opening gesture, like when playing piano.

7

Remap Caps Lock to Control and press it with my ring finger rather than my pinkie when possible (e.g C-a, C-s, C-d).

8

Even if he pinkie-swore to keep his anti-papist rants entirely out of the office.

9

My left hand isn't moving at all and my left's pinkie feels relieved because it doesn't have to bend to Control key.

10

There's a pinkie fingernail sized piece every couple of cubic metres or so.

11

As opposed to the left-pinkie hand-scrunching gestures that give some folks trouble.

12

Evil chewing on his pinkie at the top of its corporate hierarchy, it has done many things that are hard to call anything but evil.

Quote examples

1

An unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the kernel (resulting in denial of service) or for privilege escalation." Damnit, Pinkie.

2

Google "pinkie swears" they won't show any ads on Nest.

3

Looking at my own typing, my left hand tends to float as far right as N, with the Y/H/B and U/J/N columns changing hand depending the word but my right hand almost universally a bit right of "home row" so my pinkie can hover over delete/enter/shift.

4

I don't do "perfect" home row style typing, but trying to hold left shift through that entire macro is borderline impossible for me to type -- I use my left pinkie for those As, and my left hand for reaching over to that B and that G, which is stressful holding left shift.

Proper noun examples

1

Pinkie Pie already achieved full sandbox escape in Chrome at least twice in Pwnium.

2

Pinkie Pie discovered an issue in the futex subsystem that allows a local user to gain ring 0 control via the futex syscall.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use pinkie in a sentence?

Sure, but now our hypothetical system-gamer is dipping a pinkie toe into the muddy waters of tax fraud.

What does pinkie mean?

The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh

What part of speech is pinkie?

pinkie is commonly used as noun.