{"id":20907,"date":"2026-04-10T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20907"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:09:15","slug":"words-seldom-seen-fink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20907","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Fink"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fink<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noun: Someone who tells secret or damaging information about others or just an unpleasant person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example: “You fink, Why did you tell mom I snuck out last night.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pronunciation <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A gangster would call you a rat fink<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

A thank you to Kathy C for bringing this word to Words Seldom Seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cobweb with dew is the first of a series I was lucky enough to photograph back in 2007. It was a foggy morning in the Santa Monica Mountains. I’m going to run them again along with Word Seldom Seen this month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fink Noun: Someone who tells secret or damaging information about others or just an unpleasant person. Example: “You fink, Why did you tell mom I snuck out last night.” Pronunciation A gangster would call you a rat fink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,408],"tags":[1573,229,409],"class_list":["post-20907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mt-whitney","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-cobweb","tag-hiking","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1118-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5rd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20909,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20907\/revisions\/20909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}