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Sparkle in the light
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twink
Word definitions for twink in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twink \Twink\, v. i. [OE. twinken. See Twinkle .] To twinkle. [Obs.]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Silky Curler Twink by Elida was a popular brand of home perm kit that was available in Britain in the late 1960s and 1970s, retailing for about 37 pence. It was promoted using full-page advertisements in women's magazines, such as the leading title Woman ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A twinkle; a glint. vb. To twinkle, sparkle. Etymology 2 n. The chaffinch. Etymology 3 n. 1 (context gay slang English) A young, attractive, slim male, usually having little body hair. 2 (context derogatory slang English) A weak or effeminate ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, in phrase in a twynk of oon eye "suddenly, almost instantaneously," from twink (v.) "to wink," probably from Old English twincan (see twinkle (v.)). Meaning "a twinkle" is from 1830. Meaning "young sexually attractive person" is recorded from 1963, ...
Usage examples of twink.
Evie asked Tig Vesicle did he have a twink called Ed Chianese in one of the tanks.
It was part of some anecdote from when the twink still had a life, blah, blah, blah, they all pretended to remember that.
How come Ed ended up a twink, he wanted to know, when a twink was surely the opposite of all that?
The tusked cultivar on Electric Avenue, the twink curled foetally in the twink-tank: whether they knew it or not, they had asked and answered all the questions the universe could support for now.
A little later, paraplegic, catheterised and stuffed to the limits of his nervous system with brand new drugs, Ed Chianese, twink, felt the Einstein Cross light up his brain, and took control of his K-ship.
In Twink, squads of prisoners worked at demolishing the rear wall to enlarge the work space.
He was surprised when Dravog, in conversation with another warder, mentioned that one of the side passages leading from Twink would take him into Market.
Let us say that somewhere beyond Twink there exists a waterfall, falling from a cavern above ours.
The new borings in Twink have collapsed, and many good men are buried.
We will meet at the inner corner of Twink, where there are two passages leading off, so that we can escape if necessary.
Mariella pulls on her sheepskin-lined denim jacket, saddles her bay mare, Twink, and rides at a trot along the dry riverbed.
Mariella twitches the reins when Twink drops her head to investigate a patch of engineer grass.
But there is a big and immediately obvious difference, for there is no life at all in the Martian deserts, and life is everywhere around Mariella as she lets Twink set the pace on the trail home.
Mariella tells Twink, who is snuffling at the pockets of her denim jacket.
She feeds the mare the carrot she brought, and feels unexpected tears prick her eyes when Twink snuffles at her jacket again.