Sc. and north. dial. [f. KINK v.1: cf. the equivalent CHINK sb.1] A fit or paroxysm, as of laughter or coughing, that for the moment catches the breath.
1788. W. H. Marshall, Yorksh. Gloss., s.v. (E. D. S.), A kink of laughter.
1790. Morrison, Poems, 215 (Jam.). We value their frowns not a kink.
1822. Hogg, Perils of Man, I. xii. 311. The honest man’s gane away in a kink.
1880. Antrim & Down Gloss., Kink, keenk, a paroxysm of coughing or of laughter.
