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Definition of Wink |
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Wink
To nod; to sleep; to nap. To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion. To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only. To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at. To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks. To cause (the eyes) to wink. The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast. Related Definitions: Act, An, And, Anything, As, At, Avoid, Be, Blink, By, Cast, Cause, Close, Closing, Connive, Dim, Eye, Flicker, For, Generally, Give, Given, Hence, Hint, If, Light, Moment, Motion, Nap, Necessary, Nictitate, Nod, Notice, Of, Often, One, Only, Open, Opening, Or, Quick, Quickly, Shut, Shutting, Significant, Sleep, Such, Taking, The, Those, Time, To, Tolerant, Wink, With |
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Wink Quotations
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. H. L. Mencken Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. Jack Kerouac Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink. Earl Long I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. George Jean Nathan There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. Herman Melville |
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Wink Translations
wink in French is ciller wink in German is blinzeln, Zwinkern wink in Swedish is blinka |
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