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English
Verb
winking
- present participle and gerund of wink
Noun
winking (plural winkings)
- The act of someone who winks.
1828, The Harvard Register: no. I-XII, March, 1827-Feb. 1828, page 153:I have known some happy spirits, who could sit for hours, when no other amusement presented, and talk of the winkings and squintings, they had lately been so eagle-eyed, as to detect between some innocent couple […]
1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 7, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 201:[…] Billy didn’t get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city is capable of doing when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one. ¶ There was a broad river to reflect those lights, which would have made their nighttime winkings very pretty indeed.
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