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Definition of 'wink'English
Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete) To close one's eyes.
* Shakespeare
- I will wink , so shall the day seem night.
* Tillotson
- They are not blind, but they wink .
(archaic) To turn a blind eye.
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:
- Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.
* Herbert
- And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks , and lets his humours reign.
* John Locke
- Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.
(intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.
- He winked at me.
- She winked her eye.
To twinkle.
To be dim and flicker.
- The light winks .
To send an indication of agreement by winking.
Noun
( en-noun)
An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
A brief time; an instant.
A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
* 1919 ,
- I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.
A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.
Derived terms
* nudge nudge wink wink
* wink murder
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