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eyewinker

eyewinker is the alternative form 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

Forms of eyewinker

pluraleyewinkers

Questions about eyewinker

What is eyewinker the alternative form of?
Eyewinker is the alternative form of eye-winker.

Words near eyewinker in the dictionary

  1. eyewaters
  2. eyewear
  3. eyewhite
  4. eyewhites
  5. eyewink
  6. eyewinker
  7. eyewinkers
  8. eyewinks
  9. eyewire
  10. eyewires
  11. eyewitness

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