eyewinkern.
/ˈʌɪwɪŋkə/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌwɪŋkər/, Scottish English /ˈaɪwɪŋkər/ Originally Scottish. Now chiefly U.S. regional.
An eyelash. Also: an eye or eyelid. Usually in plural. Cf. winker n.1 2a.
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the world > life > the body > hair > eyelash > [noun]
breec1450
eye-bree1577
winker1734
eyelash1755
lash1796
eyewinker1808
cilia1838
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun]
eyeeOE
the fleshly eyec1175
balla1400
window1481
glazier1567
light1580
crystal1592
orb1594
glass1597
optic1601
twinkler1605
lampa1616
watchera1616
wink-a-peeps1615
visive organa1652
ogle1673
peeper1691
goggle?1705
visual orb1725
orbit1727
winker1734
peep?1738
daylights?1747
eyewinker1808
keeker1808
glimmer1814
blinker1816
glim1820
goggler1821
skylight1824
ocular1825
mince pie1857
saucer1858
mince1937
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > eyelid
breec890
eye-breeOE
eyelida1200
browc1200
lid (of the eye)c1220
palpebre?a1425
window1593
brow-lid1594
fin1604
under-lid1611
palpebra1634
cilia1715
eye-peeper1786
Madonna lid1863
eyewinker1923
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Ee-winkers, the eye-lashes.
1832 A. Picken Changeable Charlie in Athenaeum July 431/3 The burley scoundrel first lifted up his eyewinkers.
1850 Wisconsin Express 5 Sept. 1/5 He is the best shot on the prairies or the woods; he can shave an eye-winker off a wolfe.
1863 J. Smith Humourous Sc. Stories 64 Yer darlin ee-winkers are aye Huntin my imagynashin.
1881 Pennsylvania School Jrnl. 30 57 Every..hair and eye-winker, revolving ‘on its own hook’.
1909 E. Corey Let. 8 Dec. in L. Grunewald & S. J. Adler Lett. of Cent. (2008) 65 I had got used to having my hair, eyebrows and eyewinkers covered with frost and ice.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. at Ee Eie-wink, an eyelash, an eyelid... Also eie-winker,..ee-winker.
1963 M. Henry Stormy xi. 108 Close your eye-winkers, chirren.
1990 R. Jespersen Blink of Eye xxx. 405 Now that I've finished with the mascara for my eyewinkers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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