wink
suomi-englanti sanakirjawink englannista suomeksi
silmänisku
vilkkua, tuikkia
silmänräpäys
iskeä silmää
wink englanniksi
To close one's eyes in sleep.
(RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)
To close one's eyes.
(RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis)
{{quote-journal|en|year=1816|publisher=Walter Scott|journal=The Black Dwarf|section=Chapter the Fifth
''Usually followed by'' (l): to the other way, to a blind eye.
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(RQ:Burton Melancholy)
(RQ:Herbert Temple)
(RQ:Tillotson Works) they are not blind; but they wink; (..) though they know God, yet they do not glorify him as God (..)
{{quote-text|en|year=1693|author=John Locke|title=Some Thoughts Concerning Education|section=§ 79
(RQ:Swift Gulliver)
To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
{{quote-text|en|year=1861|author=George|title=Silas Marner|chapter=VI
To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
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{{quote-text|en|year=1912|author=Edwin L. Sabin|title=With Carson and Frémont|chapter=VIII
{{quote-journal|en|year=1899|author=Will T. Whitlock|title=The Circumflex|journal=Overland Monthly|section=Vol. XXXIII, second series
1920, (w), Letter to Richard Murray (''ca''. September 19), Vincent O. Sullivan & Margaret Scott, ''The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield'', Vol. 4 (1996):
- Her kitchen is a series of Still Lives; the copper pans wink on the walls.
An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
(RQ:Maugham Moon and Sixpence)
(quote-song)
The smallest possible amount.
1899, (w), "The Men of Forty-Nine: 'Malemute Kid" Deals with a Duel," ''Overland Monthly'', Vol. XXXIII, second series:
- It’s many’s the time I shot the selfsame rifiie before, and it’s many ’s the time after, but niver a wink of the same have I seen. 'T was the sight of a lifetime.
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