The Art of Literary Nomenclature

ORIGIN:
Alternately spelled “Pinkie”; an English nickname meaning “healthy”.

VARIATIONS and NICKNAMES:
Pinkie. It’s already a nickname. It would be weird to nickname a nickname, wouldn’t it?

REFERENCES IN LITERATURE:
– Pinky Alden, the governor of Colorado, in The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (written in 1915 and set in the 1890s).

Tagged: 1890s, 1910s, English, P