wink

wink

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  1. silmänisku

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wink

  1. räpytys, räpäys, silmänräpäys, silmänisku, silmän tahdosta riippumaton räpytys, silmänräpäytys, refleksi, heijaste, vaistomainen reaktio, synnynnäinen refleksi, tahdoton reaktio, psykologinen reaktio, räpyttely, kasvonilme, ilme, hetki, hetkinen, tuokio, tovi, sekunnin murto-osa, kotva, vilkkua, tuikkia, säteillä.

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silmänisku

vilkkua, tuikkia

silmänräpäys puhekieltä To close one's eyes.
Shakespeare

I will wink, so shall the day seem night.
Tillotson
They are not blind, but they wink.
puhekieltä To turn a blind eye.
(RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncl), New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:
Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.
Herbert
And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks, and lets his humours reign.
John Locke
Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.
puhekieltä To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)

He winked at me.

She winked her eye.

He winked his assent.

puhekieltä To twinkle.
puhekieltä To be dim and flicker.

The light winks.

An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
A brief time; an instant.
A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
1919, w:William Somerset Maugham|W. Somerset Maugham, w:The Moon and Sixpence|The Moon and Sixpence, s:The Moon and Sixpence/Chapter XXV|chapter 25
I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.
A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.
(de-verb form of)
puhekieltä (de-verb form of)

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