inky

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.

   One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […].

2. 2
   adj

   Dark-skinned; black.

   The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea.

3. 3
   adj

   of the color of black ink

4. 4
   adj

   Spattered or stained with ink.

From Inq(uisitor) + -y, as a term of endearment.

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