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Kinked, Kinky. World English Historical Dictionary

Kinked, Kinky. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Thornton’s An American Glossary. 1912, rev. 2022. Kinked, Kinky Twisted in knots.

1 1801.  [Daines Barrington denies that the turkey is a native of America;] and the arguments he produces are such as none but a head, entangled and kinked as his is, would ever have urged.—Tho. Jefferson to Dr. Williamson, Jan. 10. (N.E.D.)

2 1844.  [The negro’s] skull is as thick, his hair is as kinkey, his nose as flat, his lips as large, his shin as crooked, his heel as long, his foot as flat, and his skin as black, as they were the day he was first introduced.—Mr. Duncan of Ohio, House of Repr., Jan. 6: Cong. Globe, p. 42, App.

3 1866.  I hear tell that he just set in the corner of your office all day long, and never said a word but nigger, nigger, nigger, and that since your proclamation his face has turned darker and his hair more kinky.—C. H. Smith, ‘Bill Arp,’ p. 29.

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