subs. (old).—1.  Money; ready cash; also CHINKERS, or JINK. For synonyms, see ACTUAL and GILT.

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  1557.  TUSSER, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, ch. lvii., st. 43, p. 134 (E.D.S.): To buie it the cheaper, haue CHINKES in thy purse.

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  1595.  SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet, Act i., Sc. 5.

        I nursed her daughter, that you talk’d withal;
I tell you, he that can lay hold of her,
Shall have the CHINKS.

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  1603.  JOHN DAY, Law Trickes, Act i.

        They know me rich Horatio, CHINKE, CHINKE:
Whilst this holds out, my cause shall neuer sincke.

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  1630.  JONSON, The New Inn, I.

        Where every jovial tinker, for his CHINK,
May cry, Mine host, to crambe! ‘Give us drink.’

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  1754.  B. MARTIN, English Dictionary, 2 ed., s.v.

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  1852.  A. B. WARNER, Glen Luna, ch. xxviii. ‘I guess it’s something else,—she had CHINK enough to buy shoes with, I know.’

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  2.  (general).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see MONOSYLLABLE.

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