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- Dictionaryfink/fɪŋk/
noun
- 1. an unpleasant or contemptible person.
verb
- 1. inform on (someone) to the authorities: "there was no shortage of people willing to fink on their neighbours"
- 2. fail to do something promised or expected: "administration officials had finked out"
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Fink can be a noun meaning a contemptible person or a betrayer, or a verb meaning to inform on someone. Learn the origin, synonyms, examples, and usage of this slang word.
Fink is an old-fashioned informal word for someone who tells secrets or is unpleasant. Learn how to use it in sentences and see synonyms and translations.
When used generally, fink often refers to a person who is despised. More specifically, it can refer to someone seen as unreliable or untrustworthy. Relatedly, fink is also used in the phrase fink out, which can mean “to renege,” “to flake out,” or “to become untrustworthy.”
Fink is a slang term for a contemptible person, an informer, or a strikebreaker. It can also be used as a verb to mean informing or betraying someone. See the origin, usage, and translations of fink.
fink in British English. (fɪŋk ) slang, mainly US and Canadian. noun. 1. a strikebreaker; blackleg. 2. an informer, such as one working for the police; spy. 3. an unpleasant, disappointing, or contemptible person.
A fink is someone who snitches or tattles, like your sister who told your parents that you were the one who ate the last chocolate chip cookie. That fink! Fink is a North American slang term that originally meant "informant" or "strikebreaker" and expanded to be a general pejorative term for a jerk or an unpleasant person.
1900–05, Americanism; compared with German Fink literally, finch, colloquial epithet for an undesirable person, especially an untidy or loose-living one (often in compounds, as Duckfink sycophant, Schmierfink untidy writer); but the transmission of this word to English and the range of meanings of the English word have not been clarified fully
