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pinko-grey en · ADJ

Etymology

From pinko + grey.

Meanings

1. Of a colour between pink and grey; specifically, pertaining to Caucasian skin.
   • Vancouverites awoke one soggy, foggy morning this month to be reminded of another problem that won't go away either — the dislike of many people for neighbours coloured anything other than the approved dirty pinko-grey. 1964, The Canadian Forum, volumes 44-45, page 244:
   • The remark that did him most harm at the club was a silly aside to the effect that the so-called white races are really pinko-grey. 1924 June 4, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter VII, in A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, part I (Mosque), page 60:
   • By this I do not, of course, mean the abandonment of the fact that many Christians are 'white', or, more accurately, pinko-grey, in their physical complexion. 2005, Kenneth Leech, Race, page 99:

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