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Wink   /wɪŋk/   Listen
noun
Wink  n.  
1.
The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment. "I have not slept one wink." "I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink."
2.
A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast. "The stockjobber thus from Change Alley goes down, And tips you, the freeman, a wink."



verb
Wink  v. t.  To cause (the eyes) to wink.(Colloq.)



Wink  v. i.  (past & past part. winked; pres. part. winking)  
1.
To nod; to sleep; to nap. (Obs.) "Although I wake or wink."
2.
To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion. "He must wink, so loud he would cry." "And I will wink, so shall the day seem night." "They are not blind, but they wink."
3.
To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink. "A baby of some three months old, who winked, and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day."
4.
To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only. "Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate."
5.
To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; generally with at. "The times of this ignorance God winked at." "And yet, as though he knew it not, His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign." "Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued."
6.
To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
Winking monkey (Zool.), the white-nosed monkey (Cersopithecus nictitans).






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"Wink" Quotes from Famous Books



... softer red. Then in a kiss she breathed her various arts, Of trifling prettily with wounded hearts; A mind for love, but still a changing mind; The lisp affected, and the glance design'd; The sweet confusing blush, the secret wink, The gentle-swimming walk, the courteous sink, 50 The stare for strangeness fit, for scorn the frown, For decent yielding, looks declining down, The practised languish, where well-feign'd desire Would own its melting in a mutual fire; Gay smiles to comfort; April ...
— Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett - With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes • Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, and Tobias Smollett

... been lying in the wagon along with the rest, but not like them asleep. No. He could not sleep a wink for thinking on his new pet, which, for want of room in the wagon, had been left below tied to one ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid

... ain't," growled the chief; "that'll come later. Black McTee is breakin' him an' he'll be broke before he goes off his nut. Now get to hell out of here. I ain't slept a wink for ten days." ...
— Harrigan • Max Brand

... is covered. Divil resaive me if I couldn't knock it out quicker nor you could wink." Then he lowered his piece, waved his greasy hat around his big ...
— The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel Chief • Joseph Edmund Collins

... about the poor little woodmouse, Master!" said Flash, who had been staring at Sally Bradford with all his might for ten minutes, in the vain hope of making her wink. "The little woodmouse?" I said. "To be sure! you mean the one that Twinkle saw in the forest the other night. It is rather a sad story, but Puffy shall hear it. It seems, Puffy, that Twinkle, who, as you know, is one of Flash's brothers, was in the oak wood one night ...
— Five Mice in a Mouse-trap - by the Man in the Moon. • Laura E. Richards


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