Definition of Sinky

1. yielding underfoot [adj SINKIER, SINKIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinky

sinkholes
sinkier
sinkiest
sinking
sinking feeling
sinking fund
sinking ship
sinking spell
sinkings
sinkless
sinklike
sinks
sinkt
sinkward
sinkwater
sinky (current term)
sinless
sinlessly
sinlessness
sinlessnesses
sinned
sinner
sinnered
sinneress
sinneresses
sinnering
sinnerite
sinners
sinnership
sinnet

Literary usage of Sinky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Planter's Guide: Or, A Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving by Sir Henry Steuart (1832)
"In the same manner, I have taken the liberty to introduce the expression, that ground is "sinky," when it yields easily to the foot of man, or other animals ..."

2. The Planter's Guide: Or, A Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving by Sir Henry Steuart (1832)
"In the same manner, I have taken the liberty to introduce the expression, that ground is " sinky," when it yields easily to the foot of ..."

3. The Planter's Guide: A Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving by Henry Steuart (1848)
"... that ground is " sinky," when it yields easily to the foot of man, or other animals ; that plants are " stemmy," when they are tall and slender, ..."

4. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology by Museum of Comparative Zoology, John E. Cadle, Harvard University (1894)
"Oil' sinky Bay the bottom outside of the outer reef ledges is hard. Off Castle Harbor, as far as the channel leading into St. George Harbor (Plate XXL), ..."

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