Eye-winker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Eye-winker is a noun meaning (colloquial, US, dated) An eyelash.
Meaning
(colloquial, US, dated) An eyelash.
Example Sentences
Shore I’d stood there—stock-still—an’ never moved an eye-winker.
She never said nothin’ for a minute; she flushed all up as red as a rose, and I see her little fingers was shakin’, and her eye-winkers shiny and wet […]
John saw a whale and let the boys up out of their caulked cabin to have a look at him. He was a sixty-footer. He sailed along with them companionable as could be. Freddie could count the eye-winkers, he said, by his little dark eyes.
One ear was sot back on his [the cat’s] neck, ’n’ his tail was stove up, ’n’ his eye-winkers was swinged^([sic – meaning singed]) off, ’n’ he was all blacked up with powder an’ smoke, an’ all sloppy with mud ’n’ slush f’m one end to the other.
Word Forms
- eye-winkers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include winker, eyewinker, twinkler, blinker, winklepicker, winkle picker.
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