twink

Meaning

Verb

1. To twinkle; to sparkle.
2. To wink.

Noun

1. One or more very small, short bursts of light.
2. A very short moment of time.

Noun

The chaffinch.

Noun

1. (slang) A young, attractive, slim male, usually having little body hair.
2. (slang) A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.
3. A player (or character created by a player) in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game who engages in obnoxious or abusive behaviour, especially one who uses a higher-level character to give advanced equipment to one of their own lower-level characters.

Noun

Correction fluid or correction tape.

Synonyms

pussy

😺

teenybopper

teeny-bopper

Pronounced as (IPA)

/twɪŋk/

Etymology

From 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”).