Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive)To twinkle; to sparkle.

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  2. (dialectal, intransitive)To wink.

  3. (intransitive)To chirp or twitter.

  4. (derogatory, intransitive)To engage in obnoxious or abusive behaviour in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game, for example by griefing or by equipping a low-level character with advanced equipment from another player.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. A twink performed a blowjob on me.

    ruТвинк сделал мне минет. — corvard

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  2. Not every skinny guy is a twink.

  3. Karl is definitely a twink.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
twinkle, sparkle:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
twinkle, sparkle:

Origin

From Middle English twinken, twynken, from Old English *twincian (“to wink; twinkle”), fro

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”).

Imitative of the sound.

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Forms

twinks, twinking, twinked, twinked
Base formtwink · to twink
3rd person singulartwinks
Present participletwinking
Past simpletwinked
Past participletwinked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytwink
he, she, ittwinks

Past simpleLesson

all personstwinked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave twinked
he, she, ithas twinked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill twink

Word family

1 related words
DerivedtwinkleB2

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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