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Definition: TWINK |
TWINKIntransitive verb1. To twinkle. Noun1. The chaffinch. 2. A wink; a twinkling. |
Date "TWINK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Twink /twink/ n. 1. [Berkeley] A clue-repellant user; the next step beyond a clueless one. 2. [UCSC] A read-only user. Also reported on the Usenet group soc.motss; may derive from gay slang for a cute young thing with nothing upstairs (compare mainstream `chick'). 3. On MU* systems that specialize in role-playing, refers to behavior of a (usually inexperienced) player that either ignores rules or social convention, or disrupts the natural flow of a scene to show of super powers. Source: Jargon File. |
Slang | Slim, smooth, young blond. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TWINK |
| Specialty definitions using "TWINK": fweep ♦ read-only user ♦ spod ♦ terminal junkie. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "TWINK" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TWINK" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "TWINK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | طرفة عين (eye, twinkle, twinkling). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | kopasz (bald, bare, callow, hairless, peeled, pilled), kiskatona (soldier lad), katona (engineer, enlisted man, lobster, man, mercenary, pawn, serviceman, servicemen, soldier), újonc közlegény. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | inktway | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TWINK": twinkle, twinkled, twinkler, twinklers, twinkles, twinkling, twinklings, twinkly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-n-t-w" | |
-1 letter: knit, twin, wink. | |
-2 letters: ink, kin, kit, nit, tin, win, wit. | |
-3 letters: in, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-n-t-w" | |
+2 letters: tinwork, twinkle, twinkly. | |
+3 letters: downtick, knitwear, kotowing, tinworks, twankies, tweaking, twinkled, twinkler, twinkles, wonkiest. | |
+4 letters: downticks, interwork, kowtowing, nighthawk, paintwork, stinkweed, stinkwood, swankiest, thwacking, twinklers, twinkling, weeknight. | |
+5 letters: interworks, knowingest, networking, nighthawks, outwalking, outworking, paintworks, skywriting, skywritten, stinkweeds, stinkwoods, topworking, twinklings, weeknights, winterkill, wrinkliest. | |
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