Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which twinkles.
- noun A winker; a blinker; especially, the eye.
- noun That which glimmers, sparkles, or flashes; a sparkler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
twinkles orwinks . - noun An
eye .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner
Etymologies
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In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited.
Two on a Tower 2006
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His circumspect info thieving reminded him of his happier, more innocent days as a child on Moth when the most extravagant thing he had strived to steal was a used entertainment cube or a child's mutating twinkler-and occasionally, when times were hard, food for himself and Mother Mastiff.
Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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"Yon's the first twinkler," said Peke, seeing it at once, though his gaze was apparently fixed on the ground.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited.
Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884
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I shall tell him that his �brightest star of the east� is become a northern luminary, and has dimmed the lustre of every other twinkler.
Isabella. A Novel 1823
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This whimsical revision of the Christmas legend works from the premise that Santa Claus is not the jolly old twinkler we know, but a brutish force of nature.
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With Friday's twinkler in the books, check out Lincecum's Major League ranks:
MVN 2009
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This pendant world, observe, is not the earth, as Addison understood it, but the entire sidereal universe, depicted not as the infinity we now know it to be, but as a definite object, so insulated in the vastness of space as to be perceptible to the distant Fiend as a minute star, and no larger in comparison with the courts of Heaven -- themselves not wholly seen -- than such a twinkler matched with the full-orbed moon.
Life of John Milton Richard Garnett 1870
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