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blodgetm (22 words)
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chromatica, by colleen
lanas's Words, by lanas
Salmon I am, by Asativum
Out to Sea, by reesetee
Chromonyms, by mollusque
Colors, by andienator
Love, by anydelirium
Don Martin, by cricket
Fill Ah Sofee, by UmmZaid
Reds, by markdruskoff
How I feel:, by Celestial
jo, by sisilylove
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"To pink - to stab or wound with a small sword; probably derived from the holes formerly cut in both men's and women's clothes, called pinking. Pink of the fashion: top of the mode. To pink and wink: frequently winking the eyes through a weakness in them."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'.
Or a kind of pacific salmon, also called a humpy, or humpies in Southeast Alaska.
Indeed.
Or a musician.
A sailing vessel with a sharply narrowed and rounded stern and an overhanging square transom, used during the 17th century.
That, or a color. ;->