winkingn.¹

/ˈwɪŋkɪŋ/

Etymology: < wink v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

The action of wink v.¹

†1.

a. Closing the eyes in sleep; dozing, slumbering; also, a doze, a nap. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > an instance of > short or light

winkingc1175

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 145 Þer scal beon..lokinge wið-uten winkunge, song wið-uten lisse.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 3 Þanne waked I of my wynkynge and wo was with-alle, Þat I ne hadde sleped sadder.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xii. 167 In a wynkynge ich worth and wonderliche ich mette.

attributive.1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker iv. sig. H1^v So, so, he's fast; Fast as a fish ith' net, he has winking powder Shall worke upon him to our wish.

b. The taking of ‘forty winks’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > action, fact, or state of sleeping or falling asleep > for a short time or lightly

nappingeOE

dozing1692

snoozing1811

winking1862

zizzing1942

1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. xii. 239 Stephenson..would occasionally refresh himself..by a short doze, which..he would never admit had exceeded the limits of ‘winking’, to use his own term.

2. The shutting of the eyes, as in blinking, as a gesture of aversion or connivance, and now esp. as a flippant indication of intimate knowledge or amused interest. †Also, a significant glance or movement of the eyes; with at, connivance.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > other gestures > [noun] > winking

winkingc1440

society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > tacit permission

winking1572

connivency1600

connivance1611

connivinga1648

yellow light1940

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 530/1 Wynkkynge, of the eye (S. with the eye), nictitacio,..nictus,..conquinicio,..connivencia.

c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 282 Glowtynge ne twynkelynge with your yȝe..Watery wynkynge ne droppynge but of sight clere.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Nictus, a wynkynge, as whan one doth sygnifie his mynde to an other by loking.

1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 12^v What meaneth hee by winckyng like a Goose in the raine?

1572 Instructions Earl Worc. in D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 318 To suffer no permission or winking at of any other Religion then that which..our Realm hath always held.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 138 If I had..giuen my heart a winking [1604 working], mute and dumbe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 212 On the winking of Authoritie To vnderstand a Law.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 152 Breaches of charity..by the wincking and scorning of our eyes.

1664 J. Tillotson Wisdom of being Religious 33 If there be a God, a man cannot by an obstinate dis-belief of him make him cease to be, any more then a man can put out the Sun by winking.

1684 J. Howe Redeemer's Tears in Wks. (1724) II. 15 Men may indeed, by resolved, stiff, winking, create to themselves a darkness amidst the clearest Light.

1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §138 If..any one..should..make them think there is any difference between being in the dark and winking, you must get it out of their Minds.

1783 J. O'Keeffe Birth-day 28 Sly winking and blinking, As leering and jeering.

1824 L.-M. Hawkins Annaline I. 206 What..is all this winking and smirking about?

1831 W. Scott Count Robert iii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 70 It is the misfortune of the weaker on such occasions..to be obliged to take the petty part of winking hard, as if not able to see what they cannot avenge.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxviii. 286 The fat boy swallowed a glass of liquor without so much as winking.

3. The rapid alternating motion of an object; the intermittent flashing of light.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > trembling or quivering > effect (as) of light

winking1858

the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > flash > action of flashing

levininga1300

brandishing1552

flashing1574

outflashing1834

winking1908

1858 J. Brown Rab in Horæ Subsecivæ 1st Ser. 303 The mobility..of that bud [of a tail],..its expressive twinklings and winkings..were of the subtlest and swiftest.

1899 F. T. Bullen Way Navy 28 The flagship keeps breaking out into rapid winkings of lofty electric eyes.]

1908 C. W. Wallace Children of Chapel 11 The modern signal bell of the German theatre..when an act is ready to begin;—a signal reduced in American theatres to the winking of the lights.

4. like winking: in a flash, in a twinkling, very rapidly or suddenly; also, with vigour or persistency, ‘like one o'clock’, ‘like anything’. So, as easy as winking.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [phrase] > suddenly

upon the gad1608

like winking1827

like winky1830

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy

with (also in) mood and maineOE

vigour13..

with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330

with (one's) forcec1380

like anything1665

hammer and tongs1708

like stour1787

(in) double tides1788

like blazes1818

like winking1827

with a will1827

like winky1830

like all possessed1833

in a big way1840

like (or worse than) sin1840

full swing1843

like a Trojan1846

like one o'clock1847

like sixty1848

like forty1852

like wildfire1857

like old boots1865

like blue murder1867

like steam1905

like stink1929

like one thing1938

like a demon1945

up a storm1953

the world > action or operation > easiness > easy, easily, or without difficulty [phrase]

with a wet finger1542

for the whistling1546

like a bird1825

as easy (or simple) as falling (or rolling) off a log1839

without tears1857

like a dream1882

as easy as winking1907

1827 T. Hood Sailor's Apol. 71 Both my legs began to bend like winkin.

1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook II. i. 24 He's a regular scholar, and can sum up like winkin.

1872 ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1876) 85 But [we] cry ‘pray grow your opium!’ Because it pays like winking.

1907 H. Wyndham Flare of Footlights xxxv She'll..make a hundred and fifty a week as easy as winking.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

† winkingn.²

Etymology: See wink v.²

Wincing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > shrinking or flinching

wincing1426

winching1525

shrink1590

winking1677

winch1788

flinch1817

wince1865

1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. i. 7 What a Desperate Cause is this;..Is not this meer winking to avoid a blow?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

winkingadj.

/ˈwɪŋkɪŋ/

Etymology: < wink v.¹ + -ing suffix².

That winks.

a. That shuts the eyes or one eye intermittently or for an instant; blinking; †slumbering, sleepy; in Old English as noun = the blind.Used to render the specific name connivens of certain birds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [adjective]

winkinga1000

slummy?c1225

anappedc1300

sleepya1325

heavy1382

slumberyc1386

sleepful1398

peisant1484

slumberous1495

drowsy1530

sleepish1530

sleepery1535

slumberinga1538

somnolent1547

heavy-headed1552

drowsy-headed1576

narrow-eyed1607

soporiferous1607

oscitant1625

nodding1631

Morphean1641

dormious1656

somniculous1656

dozed1659

drowsed1667

peeping1673

dozy1693

peepy1699

somniferous1798

noddy1801

dozing1820

head-nodding1832

snory1837

soporific1841

somnolescent1845

swodder1847

adrowse1848

snoozy1877

slumbersome1884

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > movements of eye > winking or blinking

winking1555

blinking1568

blink1575

wapper1581

blinked1590

wapper-eyed1604

twinkling1740

nictitant1826

blinky1861

nictitating1899

a1000 Solomon & Saturn 77 Lamena he is læce, leoht wincendra [v.r. winciendra].

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 4 Þo wepte I for wo and wratth of her speche, And in a wynkyng wratth wex I aslepe.

1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. Diii^v Smaule holes kepe smaule myse from wyly wynkyng cats.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 89 Her Andirons..were two winking Cupids Of Siluer.

1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xxi Wee are wont to salute it [sc. the light] at the first comming in, with winking, or closed eyes.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Metamorphoses i, in Examen Poeticum 63 The Keeper's winking Eyes began to fail.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 773 Blame we most the nurslings or the nurse? The children,..deform'd, Through want of care; or her, whose winking eye And slumb'ring oscitancy mars the brood?

1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 53 Winking Falcon [Falco connivens]. It has a wonderful faculty of contracting and dilating the iris.

1810 G. Crabbe Borough x. 141 And prosing Topers rub their winking Eyes.

1855 Poultry Chron. 3 381 The nictitating (winking) muscles.

1860 C. Patmore Faithful for Ever ii. ii. 109 And I, contented,..idly stroke The winking cat, or watch the fire.

1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) liv Starveling saints and winking madonnas.

†b. Characterized by shutting of the eyes or averted looks; conniving. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [adjective] > shutting or averting eyes

winking1577

society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective] > that permits > tacitly

winking1577

connivent1642

conniving1783

1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Liij Some fynely vse a wincking kinde of wyle, Some looke alofte, and some doe still looke downe.

1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued vii. sig. F8 ^v See, see, what wyly winking shiftes, by cliffe browde beasts are made.

1605–6 Earl of Northampton in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 55 The winking course which I am forced to take daily in the ports..hath..tired me with struggling between both parts.

2. transferred. That opens and shuts; often, by extension, applied to intermittent light, the flashing of lamps, the twinkling of a reflexion, or the like.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > glittering or sparkling

sparkling?c1225

glising1340

glimmeringa1375

glistening1388

glistering1398

glitteringa1400

coruscantc1485

twinkling1508

flankering1577

fire-darting1594

glitterous1596

scintillant1611

winkinga1616

micant1657

scintillating1664

spangling1665

besparklinga1674

skinkling1790

spunky1791

micacious1797

glistery1806

spark-like1814

spangly1818

emicatious1819

sparky1827

aglitter1828

ablaze1851

aglist1858

scintillescent1860

aglisten1867

glittery1880

twinkly1884

sparkly1922

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 215 All preparation for a bloody siedge And merciles proceeding,..Comfort yours Citties eies, your winking gates.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii.iii. 23 (song) And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their Golden eyes.

1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iii. ii. 41 A dim winking Lamp.

1789 J. Wolcot Subj. for Painters in Wks. (1812) II. 142 A winking Light of paltry Rush.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxviii. 248 These [houses] had very little winking windows, and low-arched doors.

1904 R. Hichens Garden of Allah xx The first glass of blithely winking champagne.

Compounds

† winking-eyed adj. Obsolete blind (figurative).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind

star-blindeOE

bissonc950

blind-bornc975

blindc1000

darkOE

purblinda1325

sightlessa1325

start blinda1387

stark blinda1425

stone-blindc1480

beetle-blind1556

beetle1566

eyeless?1570

purblinded1572

high-gravel-blind1600

not-seeing?1602

kind-blind1608

bat-blind1609

unseeing1609

blindful1621

winking-eyed1621

lamplessa1625

deocular1632

lightless1638

bat-eyed1656

stock-blind1675

duncha1692

gazelessa1819

visionlessa1821

blind-eyed1887

stone-eyed1890

unsighted1983

1621 Eng. Protestants Plea for Eng. Preists & Papists 60 The councell could not be so winking eyed, but they would haue found foorth some one or other culpable.

Derivatives

ˈwinkingly adv. with winking eyes; †with a casual look; with a wink or winks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adverb] > casually

winkingly1594

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adverb] > winking or blinking

winkingly1594

blinkingly1876

a-wink1883

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. L2^v Whose pleasing face hee had scarce winkingly glaunc'd on [etc.].

1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise iii. 149 If one beholdeth..some very white object, he vieweth it winkingly.

1868 N. Brit. Rev. Dec. 429 The left eye of Raff..asks winkingly, ‘What do you bring to-day?’

1897 R. D. Blackmore Dariel xlix. 437 Looking out winkingly in all directions,..I beheld a company of little rocks.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

> as lemmas

winking

winking adj. with the eyes shut (or blindfolded).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [adjective] > blindfolded

blindwharvedc1320

yblynded1387

winking1390

blindfold1483

siled1567

amaskeda1571

blindfolded1579

hoodwink1580

veiled1602

andabatarian1624

muffled?1630

hoodwinked1640

hooded1652

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > movements of eye > eyes closed

winking1390

shut-eyed1934

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 189 Thoas..Whan Anthenor this Juel tok, Wynkende caste awei his lok.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 23462 (MED) Als wele þen saltow se wincande als wiþ opin eye.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Andabatę, certayne men that faughte with swordes wynkynge.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 302 Burg. They are then excus'd, my Lord, when they see not what they doe. King. Then good my Lord, teach your Cousin to consent winking .

extracted from winkv.¹

n.¹c1175

n.²1677

adj.a1000

as lemmas

单词	winking
释义	winkingn.¹ /ˈwɪŋkɪŋ/ Etymology: < wink v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. The action of wink v.¹ †1. a. Closing the eyes in sleep; dozing, slumbering; also, a doze, a nap. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > an instance of > short or light winkingc1175 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 145 Þer scal beon..lokinge wið-uten winkunge, song wið-uten lisse. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 3 Þanne waked I of my wynkynge and wo was with-alle, Þat I ne hadde sleped sadder. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xii. 167 In a wynkynge ich worth and wonderliche ich mette. attributive.1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker iv. sig. H1^v So, so, he's fast; Fast as a fish ith' net, he has winking powder Shall worke upon him to our wish. b. The taking of ‘forty winks’. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > action, fact, or state of sleeping or falling asleep > for a short time or lightly nappingeOE dozing1692 snoozing1811 winking1862 zizzing1942 1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. xii. 239 Stephenson..would occasionally refresh himself..by a short doze, which..he would never admit had exceeded the limits of ‘winking’, to use his own term. 2. The shutting of the eyes, as in blinking, as a gesture of aversion or connivance, and now esp. as a flippant indication of intimate knowledge or amused interest. †Also, a significant glance or movement of the eyes; with at, connivance. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > other gestures > [noun] > winking winkingc1440 society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > tacit permission winking1572 connivency1600 connivance1611 connivinga1648 yellow light1940 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 530/1 Wynkkynge, of the eye (S. with the eye), nictitacio,..nictus,..conquinicio,..connivencia. c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 282 Glowtynge ne twynkelynge with your yȝe..Watery wynkynge ne droppynge but of sight clere. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Nictus, a wynkynge, as whan one doth sygnifie his mynde to an other by loking. 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 12^v What meaneth hee by winckyng like a Goose in the raine? 1572 Instructions Earl Worc. in D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 318 To suffer no permission or winking at of any other Religion then that which..our Realm hath always held. a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 138 If I had..giuen my heart a winking [1604 working], mute and dumbe. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 212 On the winking of Authoritie To vnderstand a Law. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 152 Breaches of charity..by the wincking and scorning of our eyes. 1664 J. Tillotson Wisdom of being Religious 33 If there be a God, a man cannot by an obstinate dis-belief of him make him cease to be, any more then a man can put out the Sun by winking. 1684 J. Howe Redeemer's Tears in Wks. (1724) II. 15 Men may indeed, by resolved, stiff, winking, create to themselves a darkness amidst the clearest Light. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §138 If..any one..should..make them think there is any difference between being in the dark and winking, you must get it out of their Minds. 1783 J. O'Keeffe Birth-day 28 Sly winking and blinking, As leering and jeering. 1824 L.-M. Hawkins Annaline I. 206 What..is all this winking and smirking about? 1831 W. Scott Count Robert iii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 70 It is the misfortune of the weaker on such occasions..to be obliged to take the petty part of winking hard, as if not able to see what they cannot avenge. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxviii. 286 The fat boy swallowed a glass of liquor without so much as winking. 3. The rapid alternating motion of an object; the intermittent flashing of light. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > trembling or quivering > effect (as) of light winking1858 the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > flash > action of flashing levininga1300 brandishing1552 flashing1574 outflashing1834 winking1908 1858 J. Brown Rab in Horæ Subsecivæ 1st Ser. 303 The mobility..of that bud [of a tail],..its expressive twinklings and winkings..were of the subtlest and swiftest. 1899 F. T. Bullen Way Navy 28 The flagship keeps breaking out into rapid winkings of lofty electric eyes.] 1908 C. W. Wallace Children of Chapel 11 The modern signal bell of the German theatre..when an act is ready to begin;—a signal reduced in American theatres to the winking of the lights. 4. like winking: in a flash, in a twinkling, very rapidly or suddenly; also, with vigour or persistency, ‘like one o'clock’, ‘like anything’. So, as easy as winking. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [phrase] > suddenly upon the gad1608 like winking1827 like winky1830 the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy with (also in) mood and maineOE vigour13.. with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330 with (one's) forcec1380 like anything1665 hammer and tongs1708 like stour1787 (in) double tides1788 like blazes1818 like winking1827 with a will1827 like winky1830 like all possessed1833 in a big way1840 like (or worse than) sin1840 full swing1843 like a Trojan1846 like one o'clock1847 like sixty1848 like forty1852 like wildfire1857 like old boots1865 like blue murder1867 like steam1905 like stink1929 like one thing1938 like a demon1945 up a storm1953 the world > action or operation > easiness > easy, easily, or without difficulty [phrase] with a wet finger1542 for the whistling1546 like a bird1825 as easy (or simple) as falling (or rolling) off a log1839 without tears1857 like a dream1882 as easy as winking1907 1827 T. Hood Sailor's Apol. 71 Both my legs began to bend like winkin. 1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook II. i. 24 He's a regular scholar, and can sum up like winkin. 1872 ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1876) 85 But [we] cry ‘pray grow your opium!’ Because it pays like winking. 1907 H. Wyndham Flare of Footlights xxxv She'll..make a hundred and fifty a week as easy as winking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2020). † winkingn.² Etymology: See wink v.² Wincing. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > shrinking or flinching wincing1426 winching1525 shrink1590 winking1677 winch1788 flinch1817 wince1865 1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. i. 7 What a Desperate Cause is this;..Is not this meer winking to avoid a blow? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019). winkingadj. /ˈwɪŋkɪŋ/ Etymology: < wink v.¹ + -ing suffix². That winks. 1. a. That shuts the eyes or one eye intermittently or for an instant; blinking; †slumbering, sleepy; in Old English as noun = the blind.Used to render the specific name connivens of certain birds. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [adjective] winkinga1000 slummy?c1225 anappedc1300 sleepya1325 heavy1382 slumberyc1386 sleepful1398 peisant1484 slumberous1495 drowsy1530 sleepish1530 sleepery1535 slumberinga1538 somnolent1547 heavy-headed1552 drowsy-headed1576 narrow-eyed1607 soporiferous1607 oscitant1625 nodding1631 Morphean1641 dormious1656 somniculous1656 dozed1659 drowsed1667 peeping1673 dozy1693 peepy1699 somniferous1798 noddy1801 dozing1820 head-nodding1832 snory1837 soporific1841 somnolescent1845 swodder1847 adrowse1848 snoozy1877 slumbersome1884 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > movements of eye > winking or blinking winking1555 blinking1568 blink1575 wapper1581 blinked1590 wapper-eyed1604 twinkling1740 nictitant1826 blinky1861 nictitating1899 a1000 Solomon & Saturn 77 Lamena he is læce, leoht wincendra [v.r. winciendra]. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 4 Þo wepte I for wo and wratth of her speche, And in a wynkyng wratth wex I aslepe. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. Diii^v Smaule holes kepe smaule myse from wyly wynkyng cats. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 89 Her Andirons..were two winking Cupids Of Siluer. View more context for this quotation 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xxi Wee are wont to salute it [sc. the light] at the first comming in, with winking, or closed eyes. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Metamorphoses i, in Examen Poeticum 63 The Keeper's winking Eyes began to fail. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 773 Blame we most the nurslings or the nurse? The children,..deform'd, Through want of care; or her, whose winking eye And slumb'ring oscitancy mars the brood? 1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 53 Winking Falcon [Falco connivens]. It has a wonderful faculty of contracting and dilating the iris. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough x. 141 And prosing Topers rub their winking Eyes. 1855 Poultry Chron. 3 381 The nictitating (winking) muscles. 1860 C. Patmore Faithful for Ever ii. ii. 109 And I, contented,..idly stroke The winking cat, or watch the fire. 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) liv Starveling saints and winking madonnas. †b. Characterized by shutting of the eyes or averted looks; conniving. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [adjective] > shutting or averting eyes winking1577 society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective] > that permits > tacitly winking1577 connivent1642 conniving1783 1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Liij Some fynely vse a wincking kinde of wyle, Some looke alofte, and some doe still looke downe. 1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued vii. sig. F8 ^v See, see, what wyly winking shiftes, by cliffe browde beasts are made. 1605–6 Earl of Northampton in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 55 The winking course which I am forced to take daily in the ports..hath..tired me with struggling between both parts. 2. transferred. That opens and shuts; often, by extension, applied to intermittent light, the flashing of lamps, the twinkling of a reflexion, or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > glittering or sparkling sparkling?c1225 glising1340 glimmeringa1375 glistening1388 glistering1398 glitteringa1400 coruscantc1485 twinkling1508 flankering1577 fire-darting1594 glitterous1596 scintillant1611 winkinga1616 micant1657 scintillating1664 spangling1665 besparklinga1674 skinkling1790 spunky1791 micacious1797 glistery1806 spark-like1814 spangly1818 emicatious1819 sparky1827 aglitter1828 ablaze1851 aglist1858 scintillescent1860 aglisten1867 glittery1880 twinkly1884 sparkly1922 a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 215 All preparation for a bloody siedge And merciles proceeding,..Comfort yours Citties eies, your winking gates. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii.iii. 23 (song) And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their Golden eyes. View more context for this quotation 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iii. ii. 41 A dim winking Lamp. 1789 J. Wolcot Subj. for Painters in Wks. (1812) II. 142 A winking Light of paltry Rush. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxviii. 248 These [houses] had very little winking windows, and low-arched doors. 1904 R. Hichens Garden of Allah xx The first glass of blithely winking champagne. Compounds † winking-eyed adj. Obsolete blind (figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind star-blindeOE bissonc950 blind-bornc975 blindc1000 darkOE purblinda1325 sightlessa1325 start blinda1387 stark blinda1425 stone-blindc1480 beetle-blind1556 beetle1566 eyeless?1570 purblinded1572 high-gravel-blind1600 not-seeing?1602 kind-blind1608 bat-blind1609 unseeing1609 blindful1621 winking-eyed1621 lamplessa1625 deocular1632 lightless1638 bat-eyed1656 stock-blind1675 duncha1692 gazelessa1819 visionlessa1821 blind-eyed1887 stone-eyed1890 unsighted1983 1621 Eng. Protestants Plea for Eng. Preists & Papists 60 The councell could not be so winking eyed, but they would haue found foorth some one or other culpable. Derivatives ˈwinkingly adv. with winking eyes; †with a casual look; with a wink or winks. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adverb] > casually winkingly1594 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adverb] > winking or blinking winkingly1594 blinkingly1876 a-wink1883 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. L2^v Whose pleasing face hee had scarce winkingly glaunc'd on [etc.]. 1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise iii. 149 If one beholdeth..some very white object, he vieweth it winkingly. 1868 N. Brit. Rev. Dec. 429 The left eye of Raff..asks winkingly, ‘What do you bring to-day?’ 1897 R. D. Blackmore Dariel xlix. 437 Looking out winkingly in all directions,..I beheld a company of little rocks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021). > as lemmas winking winking adj. with the eyes shut (or blindfolded). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [adjective] > blindfolded blindwharvedc1320 yblynded1387 winking1390 blindfold1483 siled1567 amaskeda1571 blindfolded1579 hoodwink1580 veiled1602 andabatarian1624 muffled?1630 hoodwinked1640 hooded1652 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > movements of eye > eyes closed winking1390 shut-eyed1934 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 189 Thoas..Whan Anthenor this Juel tok, Wynkende caste awei his lok. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 23462 (MED) Als wele þen saltow se wincande als wiþ opin eye. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Andabatę, certayne men that faughte with swordes wynkynge. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 302 Burg. They are then excus'd, my Lord, when they see not what they doe. King. Then good my Lord, teach your Cousin to consent winking . 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