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UK
/wˈɪŋkəl/
]
[ US /ˈwɪŋkəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪŋkəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
- edible marine gastropod
VERB
- remove or displace from a position
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emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star? -
gleam or glow intermittently
The lights were flashing
How To Use winkle In A Sentence
- A few stars twinkled through the light dark clouds.
- He said the unsayable and the unthinkable but with a twinkle. Times, Sunday Times
- Here is my compile command "cc - Wall - lncurses - o twinkle twinkle. c" I am using fedora 12. 'env' shows that TERM = linux. LinuxQuestions.org
- Close against them and overpeering their tops were hollyhocks and dahlias; against these stood at lesser height sweet peas, asters, zinnias, coreopsis and others of like stature; in front of these were poppies for summer, marigolds for autumn; beneath these again were verbenas, candytuft -- all this is sketched from memory, and I recall the winsome effect rather than species and names; and still below nestled portulaca and periwinkle. The Amateur Garden
- Witty and warm with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. The Sun
- She rubbed my arm comfortingly with a small twinkle of mischief that I had seen somewhere else.
- Their faces light up and eyes twinkle as if there's a current of electricity swirling inside them.
- Here the interior is inlaid with millions of beautiful shells, scallops, paloudres, clams, periwinkles, mussels, oysters and rogans.
- For instance, layer a crewneck periwinkle short-sleeved t-shirt over my long sleeve grey heather t , allowing the bottom of the grey heather to extend below the hem of the periwinkle to create an easy, layered look. Red Room: Deborah Lindquist: Bring Your Summer Wardrobe into Fall -- the Green Way
- In 1540 he had licence to impark the Lyveden estate in Aldwinkle St. Peter's parish, where the "New The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
