Definitions for wink

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Spelling: [wingk]

IPA: /wɪŋk/

Wink is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in wink (iknw).

Definitions for wink

noun

1. an act of winking.
2. a winking movement, especially of one eye in giving a hint or signal.
3. a hint or signal given by winking.
4. the time required for winking once; an instant or twinkling:
5. a little flash of light; twinkle.
6. the least bit:
7. a disk or similar small object used in tiddlywinks.

Verb phrases

1. wink at, to ignore deliberately, as to avoid the necessity of taking action:

verb (used with object)

1. to close and open (one or both eyes) quickly; execute or give (a wink).
2. to drive or force by winking (usually followed by back or away):
3. to signal or convey by a wink.

verb (used without object)

1. to close and open one or both eyes quickly.
2. to close and open one eye quickly as a hint or signal or with some sly meaning (often followed by at):
3. (of the eyes) to close and open thus; blink.
4. to shine with little flashes of light; twinkle:

Origin of wink

before 900; (v.) Middle English winken, Old English wincian; cognate with German winken to wave, signal; (noun) Middle English: nap, derivative of the v.

Examples for wink

I'm nearer sunstroke myself than he is—not a wink of sleep for two nights now.

To add insult to injury, Ronaldo seemed to wink at his bench after Rooney was sent off.

It was another of the nudge, nudge, wink, wink jokes that summed up the entire enterprise.

And history itself offers both a lesson and a wink and a nod to the idea.

And we also have to be careful to not do it in a way that feels cheap or just a wink.

In the back of a limo, wearing a plaid blazer, Quast raises his drink and says with a wink, “you stay classy, Iowa.”

The boy flushed with pleasure under the comprehensiveness of that wink.

Hardly a wink have I slept, ruminating upon the approaching interview.

"Certainly not," answered Yates, with a wink that took in the situation.

My boy has been sick all night, and I've never had one wink of sleep.