| 单词 | with a twink |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswith a twink 1. A winking of the eye; transferred the time taken by this; a twinkling; now always in phrase in a twink; formerly at, in, with (a or the) twink of an eye; also with a twink; in the twink of a bedstick: cf. bedstaff n. 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 society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > other gestures > [noun] > winking > a wink twink14.. twinkle1548 eyewink1761 wink1836 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > movements of eye > winking or blinking prinkOE twinklinga1300 blenching1393 twink14.. blenking?a1505 twinking1519 twinkle1548 connivance1596 winka1616 nictation1623 shailing1653 nictitation1794 blinking1871 blink1924 bat1932 saccade1953 14.. Coventry Corpus Christi Plays i. 506 Myne enmyis to vanquese.. And with a twynke of myn iee not won to be lafte alyve. 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy Pref. ii. in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 127 In twynke of an Eye most sodenly. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lii. A a iv (heading) Wherat with twynke of an iye (as it were) the head spider..hath builded a strong castell in that copweb. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xci. Oo iv b Change (by chance) brought him (at twinke of an iye) From twig top of the tree, at the rote to lie. 1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc iv. ii. (Shaks. Soc.) 142 A pereles prince..Euen with a twinke a censeles stocke I sawe. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders i. xxiv. 194 The poore gentlewoman..speaking not a word, gaue him a twinch with a weeping eye. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 306 Kisse on kisse Shee vi'd so fast, protesting oath on oath, That in a twinke she won me to her loue. View more context for this quotation 1715 tr. Thomas à Kempis Christian's Exercise iii. xxv. 173 As Lightning in the Twink of an Eye, so do all the Kingdoms and Times of the World pass away. 1754 J. Shebbeare Marriage Act II. lvii. 138 I'll cut it less in a Twink. 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans I. 71 I can tell you in the twink of a bedstick. 1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 72 The confident old bowler..thought to settle his business in a twink. 1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin iii. i She's got the real witch's eye, and can do you a mischief in a twink, if she likes. 1902 J. M. Barrie Little White Bird xiii. 135 Night passes in a twink. < as lemmas |
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