Meaning of Wink | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
2. Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”).
3. Synonym of periwinkle (“type of mollusk”).
   British, slang
4. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
5. A brief time; an instant.
6. The smallest possible amount.
7. A subtle allusion.

Equivalents

Examples

“I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.”

“Couldn't sleep a wink last night / Oh how I'd love to hold you tight”

“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.”

“The film includes a wink to wartime rationing.”

““I buy my winks,” said one, “at Billingsgate, at 3s. and 4s. the wash. A wash is about a bushel. […]””

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