wink

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[edit] Etymology

Old English wincian, from Proto-Germanic *wiŋk-. Cognate with Old Saxon wincon (to nod), Middle Dutch wincen (move sideways).

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Infinitive
to wink

Third person singular
winks

Simple past
winked

Past participle
winked

Present participle
winking

to wink (third-person singular simple present winks, present participle winking, simple past and past participle winked)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes.
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To turn a blind eye.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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.
  3. (intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.
  4. (intransitive) To twinkle.
  5. (transitive) To send an indication of agreement by winking.

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[edit] Noun

act of winking

Singular
wink

Plural
winks

wink (plural winks)

  1. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
  2. A brief time; an instant.
  3. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
  4. A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.

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a period of sleep - see idiom forty winks

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