Plural of wink
regular plural
The plural of wink is winks.
Forms of wink
| Singular | wink /ˈwɪŋk/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | winks |
| Countable | countable |
Winks in a sentence
- As you’re so tired, why not try to catch forty winks before you leave?From the entry forty winks
- I sneak off behind the crates to grab forty winks where the supervisor can't find me.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (science fiction), Redwood City, Calif.: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, P.C., scene: Eden Prime. From the entry forty winks
- I got dozens of winks, she got hundreds.2014, Monica Porter, chapter 7, in Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously, London: Head of Zeus, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry blondeness
- It involves sending an opponent's winks far from the cup.2002, Peder Jones, Jay Farness, College Writing Skills, page 160. From the entry boondock
- An empty beerbottle winks russet in the guardhouse.2002, Dan Wylie, Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War, Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry beerbottle
Meaning of wink
- verb To close one's eyes in sleep.
- verb To close one's eyes.
- verb Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
Questions about the plural of wink
- What is the plural of wink?
- The plural of wink is winks.
- Is wink countable?
- Wink is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wink (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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