Meaning

noun the expensive fur of a mink

noun fur coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks

noun slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur

originFrom Late Middle English mynk (“fur of the European mink”), apparently from Swedish mink, mänk, menk (“stinking animal in Finland, mink”). Compare Danish mink (“mink”), Icelandic minkur (“mink”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0