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Definition of Twinking
1. twink [v] - See also: twink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twinking
Literary usage of Twinking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Collections of Derbicisms Containing Words and Phrases in a Great by Samuel Pegge, Thomas Hallam (1896)
"twinking, adj. ; ' a twinking frost,' a sharp or severe one ; twinking (tweaking)
one, as it were by the nose. Twitch, v. to take up hastily ; also, ..."
2. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana (1895)
"had been built upon the fore-hatch, were all gone, in the twinking of an eye,
leaving the deck as clean as a chin new reaped, and not a stick left to show ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... shamefully confuted My pen now wyll I sharpe And wrest vp my harpe With sharpe
twinking trebels Agaynst al such rebels That labour to confound And bring ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1819)
"She was a short, fat, " dumpy woman"—quite a bundle of a body, as one may say—with
smooth red cheeks, and little twinking roguish eyes ;—and when she ..."
5. Ballad Book by Katharine Lee Bates (1890)
"Wi' that he vanished frae her sight, In the twinking of an eye ; And naething
mair the lady saw But the gloomy clouds and sky. ..."
6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1890)
"The chart proves a very thorough preparedness, if the French or King James appeared
on the seas, to send on the news to London in " twinking points of fire. ..."
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