Wink

Verb

 * 1)  To close one's eyes.
 * 2)  To turn a blind eye.
 * 3) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p. 51:
 * Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.
 * 1)  To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.
 * 2)  To twinkle.
 * 3)  To send an indication of agreement by winking.

Noun



 * 1) An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
 * 2) A brief time; an instant.
 * 3) A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
 * 4) A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.

Derived terms

 * nudge nudge wink wink
 * wink murder

Adjectives for Wink
single; significant; unfatherly; lasting; cunning; impudent; sly; furtive; suggestive; pitying.

Verbs for Wink
burlesque—; discern—; exaggerate—; exchange—s; swap—s (colloq.) ; tip—to; — allures; —amuses; —beckons; —beguiles; — betokens; —conveys; —denotes; —discloses; —distorts; —distracts; —entices; —expresses; —flirts; —indicates; —lures; —passes between; —prompts; —warns.

Adverbs for Wink
coyly; triumphantly; significantly; wickedly; broadly; saucily; cunningly; impudently: furtively; suggestively.

Thesaurus
Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, bat, bat the eyes, beacon, beacon fire, beat the drum, bell, bell buoy, blanket drill, blink, blinker, blue peter, breath, broad hint, buoy, cast, cat nap, caution light, clue, coup, crack, cue, dash, dip, exchange colors, flag, flag down, flare, flash, flutter, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, forty winks, gentle hint, gesture, give a signal, give the nod, glance, glimmer, glimmering, glimpse, go light, gong buoy, green light, hail, hail and speak, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, half an eye, half-mast, heliograph, high sign, hint, hoist a banner, implication, index, indication, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, instant, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, intimation, jiff, jiffy, kick, leer, look, make a sign, marker beacon, microsecond, millisecond, minute, moment, nap, nictitate, nod, nudge, parachute flare, peek, peep, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, prompt, quarantine flag, quick sight, radio beacon, raise a cry, rapid glance, red flag, red light, rocket, sailing aid, salute, scent, sec, second, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, shade, shake, siesta, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, signalize, slant, smack, snooze, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, soupcon, spar buoy, speak, split second, spoor, spot of sleep, squinch, squint, squiz, stop light, stroke, suggestion, suspicion, symptom, telltale, the nod, the wink, tick, touch, trace, track, traffic light, traffic signal, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, unfurl a flag, watch fire, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, whisper, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink of sleep, yellow flag

Etymology
winken:, from wincian: 'to nod, wink', from  'to wink, signal' (cf. East Frisian wäänke:, Dutch wenken:, German winken:), from  'to bend, curve' (cf. Latin vacillare: ‘to sway’, Lithuanian véngti: ‘to avoid’, Albanian vang: 'tire, felloe', Sanskrit undefined: ‘he swaggers’).

Verb

 * Bosnian: namignuti
 * Catalan: fer l'ullet, picar l'ullet
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 眨眼, 眨眼睛, 眨
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: cligner des yeux, faire un clin d'œil


 * German: zuzwinkern, zwinkern
 * Icelandic: blikka
 * Japanese: 瞬く
 * Latin: nicto, conniveo
 * Portuguese: Piscar
 * Russian: подмигивать, подмигнуть , мигать
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: flonkeren
 * Finnish: ,


 * Russian: мерцать
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,


 * Dutch:


 * : guiñar, picar el ojo

Noun

 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܪܦܦܐ (rpāpā’)
 * Hebrew: רפפא (rpāpā’)
 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: silmänisku


 * French:
 * Icelandic: blikk
 * Russian: подмигивание
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: миг
 * Roman: mig
 * Spanish:


 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܪܦܦܐ (rpāpā’)
 * Hebrew: רפפא (rpāpā’)


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: миг

a period of sleep - see idiom forty winks


 * : sumirkseti

Verb
wink