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Rh [‘cow’] (wi’ de head):  2) to dislocate a limb; to k. de foot. (: ᶄe‘ŋk). —  kinka,, to wriggle; rock to and fro; to wag the head, kinksa, , to toss the head slightly. — See ,  and

kinket [kɩ‘ŋkət, ke‘ŋkət (ᶄɩ‘ŋkət, ᶄe‘ŋkət)],, inclined to make wriggling or tossing movements, to toss the head, or carry the head high; a k. body, craeter’ [‘creature’]. [ke‘ŋkət] and several places. kinken,, restless, wriggling; kinksen, , inclined to toss the head.

kinks [ᶄe‘ŋks],, offence, fit of bad humour, touchiness; to tak’ a k., to be peevish or offended. (offended) toss of the head. kink and kinks,, a bending; turning; twisting; toss of the head.  kinka, , to be touchy, to whine and scold, kinken,, touchy.

kinks(t) [ᶄe‘ŋks(t)], kinkset [ᶄe‘ŋksət], , touchy, easily offended; to be at ane [‘one’]; he looked kind o’. of the preceding word. —, , reported from , is different from ; see ,

kinn [kin (kɩn)],, properly cheek, but now found only in a few places in the same sense as the more common “-fish”, cheek-flesh of a fish; thus in  [kin]. From is handed down an obsolete [kidn, kid$w$n], with change from nn to dn, in proper sense cheek, used by fishermen as a tabu-word. A.L. (in “Proceedings”): keedin. — The word is found rather commonly in place-names in the sense of steep slope, steep tract of coast, still partly on the border of a common noun, understood in several places by the common people, and mostly with prefixed : (de) . Sometimes with added, closer designation, such as: de Kinn o’ Fjel [fjēl] ; de Kinn o’ Sørett [søret] [Sørett from sauð(a)rétt, , sheep-fold]; de o’ Katanes , some sloping tracts of coast. With double ending: de (outer) and inner  [kiᶇens] ; - from -rnar [kinnrnar] with later added -s. On “de Side o’ [sodra kid$ə$n]”, from an original *syðra kinn, the southern slope; “de craig [‘crag’] o’ ”. In the eastern part of Sandness, however, is found “de ” without change of nn to dn. See further Shetl. Stedn. p. 116. — kinn, , a) the cheek; b) a steep slope or mountain-side. — See -fish,
 * [kidn, kid$ə$n]; thus:

cow with white cheek (cheeks) or a white cow with black cheek (cheeks); only noted down in in the form [kidna]. See, , and
 * Kinna,, the name of a black

a cow: black with white cheek (cheeks) or vice versa. Only noted down in in the form [kidnət]; a coo [‘cow’]. — of another colour. See ,
 * kinnet,, applied to an animal,
 * kinnóttr, having the cheek (cheeks)

kinn [kin (kɩn)]-fish,, the cheek-flesh of a fish. kinnfiskr, kinnfisk,, cheek-flesh (not only of fish; in, however, applied to the cheeks of fish and human beings), “fisk”, , is found uncompounded in in sense of thick muscle. In this latter word has been confounded with fish,

, quite young coalfish , split, after having the entrails removed, and hung up to be slightly dried, then stuffed with fish-livers 27
 * kinnina(n)silek [kɩᶇ··ɩnasel·ək, keᶇ··ənansel·ək],
 * kinninsilek [kin··ɩnsel·ək],