/twɪŋk/
OriginFrom Middle English twinken, twynken, from Old English *twincian (“to wink; twinkle”), from Proto-West Germanic *twinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *twinkōną, an augmented form (with formative *-kōną; see English -k) of Proto-Germanic *twint- (“to twinkle”). Cognate with Middle High German zwinken, zwingen, modern German zwinkern (“to wink; twinkle”), Middle Dutch twinc (“a blink”), Middle High German zwinzen, zwinzern (“to blink, blink hard”).
- To twinkle; to sparkle.
- dialectalTo wink.
- To chirp or twitter.
- One or more very small, short bursts of light.
“1921, Almira Bailey, “The Bay on Sunday Morning” in Vignettes of San Francisco, San Francisco: The San Francisco Journal, p. 18,
[…] chug of the fishermen’s boats, twink of lights in the harbor at nig”
“But even as he went, the smile began to come on his face, caught by the tail of the sturdy sister’s black eye, with its everlasting twink.”
- A very short moment of time.
“[…] in a twink she won me to her love.”
“I’d have known all about it in half a twink.”
“[…] and once again, in the twink of nothing, I was in another big high cab, all set to go hundreds of miles across the night, and was I happy!”
- The chaffinch.
- slangA young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair.
““Where are the twinks anyway? They usually have the decency to provide one or two decorative twinks… Jesus, who needs to waste a night staring at these tired old Gucci queens.””
“[…]the narrow gay ideal of a slim or waiflike male body, as displayed by the young "twink".”
- New-Zealand, uncountableCorrection fluid or correction tape.
- Synonym of correction fluid.
Formstwinks(present, singular, third-person) · twinking(participle, present) · twinked(participle, past) · twinked(past) · twinks(plural)