eye-winker
eye-winker noun: an eyelash.
Noun
eye-winker (plural eye-winkers)
- An eyelash.
- 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 […]1858, Rose Terry Cooke, “Eben Jackson”, in Somebody’s Neighbors, Boston: James R. Osgood, published 1881, page 8
- 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.1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 442
Examples of eye-winker in a sentence
- Shore I’d stood there—stock-still—an’ never moved an eye-winker.1920 January, Zane Grey, chapter XX, in The Man of the Forest […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 287:
- Freddie could count the eye-winkers, he said, by his little dark eyes.1939, Robert P. T. Coffin, chapter 17, in Captain Abby and Captain John, New York: Macmillan, page 296:
Forms of eye-winker
| plural | eye-winkers |
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Questions about eye-winker
- What does eye-winker mean?
- Eye-winker means an eyelash.
- How do you use eye-winker in a sentence?
- Shore I’d stood there—stock-still—an’ never moved an eye-winker.
- What part of speech is eye-winker?
- Eye-winker is a noun.
- What is the plural of eye-winker?
- The plural of eye-winker is eye-winkers.
Words near eye-winker in the dictionary
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