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Winks
An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
📖 Definitions of "Winks"
noun
- 1
An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- 2
A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- 3
A brief time; an instant.
- 4
The smallest possible amount.
verb
- 1
To close one's eyes in sleep.
- 2
To close one's eyes.
- 3
Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
- 4
To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
noun
- 1
A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.
noun
- 1
(Chiefly British) Periwinkle.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Winks"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| blinkverb | (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly. |
| nictitateverb | (transitive) to wink or blink |
| nictateverb | (intransitive) To wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane. |
| twinklenoun | (of a source of light) To shine with a flickering light; to glimmer. |
| twinklingnoun | Sparkling intermittently. |
| flashnoun | (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. |
| tricenoun | Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment. |
| blink of an eyenoun | (idiomatic) A moment (a very short period of time). |
| jiffynoun | (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. |
| instantnoun | A very short period of time; a moment. |
| new york minutenoun | (informal) An instant; an extremely short time. |
| split secondnoun | Alternative form of split-second. [(chiefly attributive) A stopwatch with two second hands, each of which may be stopped separately to time the intervals of a race by a sportsperson, or to time more than one sportsperson.] |
| winklenoun | (childish, slang) The penis, especially that of a child rather than that of an adult. |
| blink awayverb | force to go away by blinking |
| tiddlynoun | (colloquial) tiny; little |
| tiddleverb | (childish, UK) To urinate. |
| winkworthnoun | A surname. |
| winkfieldnoun | A village and civil parish in Bracknell Forest UA, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU9072). |
| winklernoun | A city in Manitoba, Canada. |
| winkleynoun | A surname from Old English. |
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