| 单词 | in a wink |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin a wink a. A moment of time, as being that occupied by a glance of the eyes; phr. in a wink ( †with or at a wink), in a trice. (Cf. eyewink n. 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant hand-whileOE prinkOE start-while?c1225 twinkling1303 rese?c1335 prick1340 momenta1382 pointa1382 minutea1393 instant1398 braida1400 siquarea1400 twink14.. whip?c1450 movement1490 punct1513 pissing whilea1556 trice1579 turning of a hand1579 wink1585 twinklec1592 semiquaver1602 punto1616 punctilio of time1620 punctum1620 breathing1625 instance1631 tantillation1651 rapc1700 crack1725 turning of a straw1755 pig's whisper1780 jiffy1785 less than no time1788 jiff1797 blinka1813 gliffy1820 handclap1822 glimpsea1824 eyewink1836 thought1836 eye-blink1838 semibreve1845 pop1847 two shakes of a lamb's taila1855 pig's whistle1859 time point1867 New York minute1870 tick1879 mo?1896 second1897 styme1897 split-second1912 split minute1931 no-time1942 sec.1956 the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > shortness in time [phrase] > instantaneously as thou turnest thine handc1225 at a brusha1400 at one (also a) bruntc1450 with a whisk1487 with a whip Sir John1550 in the turn (also turning) of a hand1564 with or at a wink1585 at a blowa1616 in a wink1693 at a stroke1709 in or wi' a whid1719 in the trip of a minute1728 with a thrash1870 the twinkling of a bedpost1871 in a whisk1900 in jig-time1916 1585 A. Montgomerie Sonn. xiii. 4 Bright Apollo..Quhais glorious glance ȝit stoutly skaillis the skyis, Quhen with a wink we wonder vhair they war. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 206 How..radie to do the king pleisour, at a wink quhen he wald charge. 1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 22 Man is onely a winke of life. 1658 J. Robinson Endoxa 33 The rest..were coexisting with their first Being; or, upon the least Wink of Opportunity, prest to be drawn forth. 1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer iii. ii The company will be here in a wink, as a body may say. 1790 D. Morison Poems 7 Then aff a' wallop in a wink. 1826 T. Hood I Remember 5 He [sc. the sun] never came a wink too soon. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 138 For in a wink the false love turns to hate. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxx. 362 The next wink of time their blades clashed together. < as lemmas |
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