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Twink   Listen
noun
Twink  n.  
1.
A wink; a twinkling. (Obs.)
2.
(Zool.) The chaffinch. (Prov. Eng.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Twink" Quotes from Famous Books



... the pot-hook and chicken-track stage. And now, chil'run, in honor of our eminent friend's visitation, and of the excellence with which you have been examine', I p'onounce the exhibition finish'—dispensing with 'Twink', twink' lil stah.' And now, in the book of the best writing scholar in the school—you, sir, deciding that intricacy—shall now be written the name of the eminent frien' of learning ...
— Bonaventure - A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana • George Washington Cable
... who pays heed to that voice within him which warns him that twilight and danger are settling over his soul, terror is apt to appear an absolute thing, against which his heart must be safeguarded in a twink unless there is to take place an alteration in the whole range and scale of his nature. Mercifully, he has never far to look for safeguards. Of the immediate and small and common and momentary things of life, of usages and observances and modes and conventions, he builds up fortifications against ...
— Widdershins • Oliver Onions


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