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[‘cow’] kinks (wi’ de head): Sa. 2) to dislocate a limb; to k. de foot. De^w. (M.Roe: ᶄe‘ŋk). — No. kinka, vb., to wriggle; rock to and fro; to wag the head, kinksa, vb., to toss the head slightly. — See kinks, sb. and adj.

kinket [kɩ‘ŋkət, ke‘ŋkət (ᶄɩ‘ŋkət, ᶄe‘ŋkət)], adj., inclined to make wriggling or tossing movements, esp. to toss the head, or carry the head high; a k. body, craeter’ [‘creature’]. Sa. [ke‘ŋkət] and several places. No. kinken, adj., restless, wriggling; kinksen, adj., inclined to toss the head.

kinks [ᶄe‘ŋks], sb., offence, fit of bad humour, touchiness; to tak’ a k., to be peevish or offended. Sa. Prop. (offended) toss of the head. No. kink and kinks, m., a bending; turning; twisting; toss of the head. Cf. Sw. dial. kinka, vb., to be touchy, to whine and scold, kinken, adj., touchy.

kinks(t) [ᶄe‘ŋks(t)], kinkset [ᶄe‘ŋksət], adj., touchy, easily offended; to be kinkst at ane [‘one’]; he looked kind o’ kinks. Sa. Deriv. of the preceding word. — kjinsket, tjinsket, reported from Fe., is different from kinks(et); see tinsket, adj.

kinn [kin (kɩn)], sb., properly cheek, but now found only in a few places in the same sense as the more common “kinn-fish”, cheek-flesh of a fish; thus in Y. occas. [kin]. From Fo. is handed down an obsolete kidn [kidn, kid^ən], with change from nn to dn, in proper sense cheek, used by fishermen as a tabu-word. A.L. (in “Proceedings”): keedin. — The word is found rather commonly in place-names in the sense of steep slope, steep tract of coast, still partly on the border of a common noun, understood in several places by the common people, and mostly with prefixed def. art.: (de) Kinn. Sometimes with added, closer designation, such as: de Kinn o’ Fjel

[fjēl] (Fe.); de Kinn o’ Sørett [søret] (Wh.) [Sørett from O.N. sauð(a)rétt, f., sheep-fold]; de Kinns o’ Katanes (L.), some sloping tracts of coast. With double pl. ending: de øter (outer) and inner Kinnens [kiᶇens] (Fe.); -ens from O.N. -rnar [kinnrnar] with later added Eng. -s. On Wests.: Kidn [kidn, kid^ən]; thus: “de Side o’ Sudra Kidn [sodra kid^ən]” (Fo.), from an original *syðra kinn, the southern slope; “de craig [‘crag’] o’ Kidn” (Sa^w.). In the eastern part of Sandness (Sa^e.), however, is found “de Kinn” without change of nn to dn. See further Shetl. Stedn. p. 116. — O.N. kinn, f., a) the cheek; b) a steep slope or mountain-side. — See kinn-fish, *kinnpuster, sbs.

*Kinna, sb., the name of a black cow with white cheek (cheeks) or a white cow with black cheek (cheeks); only noted down in Fo. in the form Kidna [kidna]. See kinn, sb., and *kinnet, adj.

*kinnet, adj., applied to an animal, a cow: black with white cheek (cheeks) or vice versa. Only noted down in Fo. in the form kidnet [kidnət]; a kidnet coo [‘cow’]. — *kinnóttr, having the cheek (cheeks) of another colour. See kinn, sb.

kinn [kin (kɩn)]-fish, sb., the cheek-flesh of a fish. comm. Icel. kinnfiskr, No. kinnfisk, m., cheek-flesh (not only of fish; in No., however, esp. applied to the cheeks of fish and human beings), “fisk”, m., is found uncompounded in No. in sense of thick muscle. In Shetl. this latter word has been confounded with Eng. fish, sb.

*kinnina(n)silek [kɩᶇ··ɩnasel·ək, keᶇ··ənansel·ək], *kinninsilek [kin··ɩnsel·ək], sb., quite young coalfish (silek), split, after having the entrails removed, and hung up to be slightly dried, then stuffed with fish-livers

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