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eyewinks

eyewinks is the plural of eyewink.

Meaning of eyewink

Noun

eyewink (plural eyewinks)

  1. (poetic) An instant, a short moment.
    • As to age, Bead could not form any clear impression; he might have been twenty, or forty. All of this visual perception occurred in an eyewink of time […]1972, John Ferguson, War and the creative arts: an anthology
  2. The winking of an eye.
    • Dogs were conditioned to give an eyewink to light by pairing a light and a puff of air to the cornea.1943, Clifford Thomas Morgan, Physiological psychology

Questions about eyewinks

What is eyewinks the plural of?
Eyewinks is the plural of eyewink.

Words near eyewinks in the dictionary

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

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