Mink

Quick meaning: Mink is a noun meaning (plural mink) The fur or pelt of a mink, used to make apparel.

Meaning

(plural mink) The fur or pelt of a mink, used to make apparel.

More Meanings

1. (plural minks) An article of clothing made of mink.
2. (Scotland, slang, derogatory, plural minks) A person with poor personal hygiene; a smelly person.
3. (plural mink or minks) Any semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammal in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neogale vison) and the European mink (Mustela lutreola).

Example Sentences

Many of these birds are destroyed by Weasels and Minxes.

He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.

From Michaelmas 1739. to Michaelmas 1740. Skins. […] Mink at 2s. 4d. Elk at 8s. Deer at 2s. 7½ per Skin.

[Friday 7.] I ſhot three brace of grouſe, and found a mink in one of the traps which I tailed yesterday. [Saturday 8.] The ſame trap caught another mink to-day.

Word Forms

• minks
• minx

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include musteline, fur, vision, directorate, mustelid, stoat.

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