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eye-winkers

eye-winkers is the plural of eye-winker.

Meaning of eye-winker

Noun

eye-winker (plural eye-winkers)

  1. (US, colloquial, dated) 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

Questions about eye-winkers

What is eye-winkers the plural of?
Eye-winkers is the plural of eye-winker.

Words near eye-winkers in the dictionary

  1. eye-tooth
  2. Eye-tye
  3. eye-watering
  4. eye-wateringly
  5. eye-winker
  6. eye-winkers
  7. eye-witness
  8. eye-witnesses
  9. eye-word
  10. eye-words
  11. eye-worthy

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