subs. (colloquial).—A crotchet; a whim.
1833. MARRYAT, Peter Simple, II. i. Look at your shoulders above your ears, and your back with a bow like a KINK in a cable.
1850. H. B. STOWE, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ch. xii. ‘Buy me too, Mas’r, for de dear Lord’s sake!—buy me—I shall die if you don’t!’ ‘You’ll die if I do, that’s the KINK of it,’ said Haley,—‘no!’ And he turned on his heel. Ibid. (1871), Oldtown Fireside Stories, 33. The fact is, when a woman gets a KINK in her head agin a man, the best on us don’t allers do jest the right thing.
1883. PAYN, Thicker than Water, ch. xxiv. The wheel of life was turning smoothly enough for Mary when there suddenly came a KINK in it.
