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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry.
  • To twinkle; sparkle; wink.
  • noun A sly glance; a leer.
  • To twist; twirl.
  • noun A twisted filament; a thread.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A twisted filament; a thread.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To peep; to glance obliquely; to leer.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To twinkle; to glance; to gleam.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To sing, or twitter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To twist; twirl.
  • noun A twisted filament; a thread.
  • verb intransitive To glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry.
  • verb intransitive To twinkle; sparkle; wink.
  • noun A sly glance; a leer.

Etymologies

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Perhaps from a dialectal form of *twere, from Middle English *tweren, from Old English þweran ("to stir") (found in compound āþweran ("to agitate, stir")), from Proto-Germanic *þweranan (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *twer- (“to turn, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Bavarian zweren ("to stir"). Compare twirk, twirl.

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From Middle English *twir, *twirn, from Old English *twirn, *tweorn (“twine, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *twiznaz (“thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *duwo- (“two”). Cognate with Dutch tweern ("thread"), German Zwirn ("thread, twine"), Old English twīn ("twine"). More at twine.

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From Middle English twiren ("to peep out, pry about, twinkle, glance, gleam"), cognate with Middle High German zwieren ("to spy"), Bavarian zwiren, zwieren ("to spy, glance"). Perhaps related to Old English twinclian ("to twinkle"). More at twinkle.

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  • When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.

    National Poetry Day communicator 2004

  • When sparkling stars twire not thou gild’st the even.

    Sonnet 28 1914

  • The verb 'to twire' occurs in Shakespeare's _Sonnets_, xxviii, 12, and frequently elsewhere.p. 320 _Hogan-Mogan_.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664

  • When sparkling stars twire not thou guil'st th 'eauen.

    Sonnets (1609 Edition) 1609

  • When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.

    Sonnets 1593

  • When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.

    Shakespeare's Sonnets William Shakespeare 1590

  • When sparkling stars twire not thou gild’st the even.

    The Sonnets 2004

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synonyms (6)

Words with the same meaning

  1. glance
  2. gleam
  3. leer
  4. peep
  5. thread
  6. twinkle

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