winkiness

English

Etymology

From winky +‎ -ness.

Noun

winkiness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being winky.
   • 1897 July 3, “Jubilopera Notes”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXII, London: […], page 333, column 1:

     Resplendent, happy and glorious, appeared our Princess and our Prince! and mightily enjoying the feast of music prepared for them in small parcels, sat all the Royalties and Attracting Magnates; while the great officers of State (in such a state, too! with the thermometer at ninety-five degrees in the electric light shade, if any) watched, lynx-eyed, yet with the gentle winkiness of the cooing turtle-dove.

   • 1898, Léon Daudet, translated by Charles de Kay, “Life and Literature”, in Alphonse Daudet […], Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, page 24:

     Very few people duped or abused his confidence, for he knew how to uncover lies with extraordinary sagacity; but even that did not irritate him: “The poor wretch,” he often said to us with his delightful smile, “the poor wretch thought that he was deceiving me; but I read falsehood on his face and divined it from the trembling of a little muscle down there in the corner of the mouth which I know very well; it was made known to me also by the ‘winkiness’ of his eyes; there was a moment when I was on the point of betraying myself. Pshaw! he ’s an unhappy creature all the same.”

   • 1915 October, Rose O’Neill, “The Kewpies and Little Hieronimous”, in Good Housekeeping Magazine, volume LXI, number 4, New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, pages 442–443:

     His cheeks showed plump and pleasant pinkiness, / His hair a fascinating kinkiness; / Droll was his left eye’s lurking winkiness, / But, dears, his little brain lacked thinkiness!

   • 2001 June 7–13, Jodi Ramer, “Bitch, bitch, bitch: Tripartite Amores Perros as vast and complex as Mexico City”, in Andrew Hanon, editor, SEE Magazine, number 392, Edmonton, Alta.: Gazette Press Ltd., →ISSN, page 38:

     The Tarantino comparison is obvious, thought it reduces Amores Perros to imply that it’s some kind of Latin Pulp Fiction — the former has a more serious dramatic agenda, and none of the self-satisfied winkiness that makes Tarantino fun but also a pernicious progenitor of empty ironizing ad infinitum.