Meaning

To twinkle; to sparkle..

Definitions by Sense

1. To twinkle; to sparkle.
2. (now dialectal) To wink.
3. One or more very small, short bursts of light.
4. A very short moment of time.
5. The chaffinch.
6. To chirp or twitter.
7. (gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair.
8. (derogatory, slang) A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.

Example Sentences

1921, Almira Bailey, “The Bay on Sunday Morning” in Vignettes of San Francisco, San Francisco: The San Francisco Journal, p. 18, […] chug of the fishermen’s boats, twink of lights in the harbor at night […]

But even as he went, the smile began to come on his face, caught by the tail of the sturdy sister’s black eye, with its everlasting twink.

[…] in a twink she won me to her love.

I’d have known all about it in half a twink.

[…] and once again, in the twink of nothing, I was in another big high cab, all set to go hundreds of miles across the night, and was I happy!

“Where are the twinks anyway? They usually have the decency to provide one or two decorative twinks… Jesus, who needs to waste a night staring at these tired old Gucci queens.”

[…]the narrow gay ideal of a slim or waiflike male body, as displayed by the young "twink".

“I thought testosterone would turn me into a man, but it turned me into a twink,” Tom, who is nonbinary, revealed to a cackling West Village audience last week at the Greenwich House Theater in Manhattan.

Word Forms

• twinks
• twinking
• twinked

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