Definition of Wink

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Definition of Wink

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.

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Wink Quotations

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
Charles Spurgeon

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Jack Kerouac

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

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

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

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

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.
Donald E. Westlake

The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.
Reggie White

All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.
Gina Philips

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.
John Marston

Wink Translations

wink in French is ciller
wink in German is blinzeln, Zwinkern
wink in Swedish is blinka

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