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twenty winks

twenty winks noun: a very short sleep.

Noun

twenty winks pl (plural only)

  1. (idiomatic, plural, plural-only) A very short sleep.
    • Near-synonyms: forty winks; see also Thesaurus:shut-eye
    • All right, go along to the doting mother, while I stretch out on the settle and chance twenty winks of sleep before Andrew turns up. I never sleep well on the train, as you know.1931, Henry Berman, Life Demands! And Other Plays

twenty winks meaning in Bengali

twenty winks in Bengali

খুব অল্প সময়ের ঘুম

Synonyms of twenty winks

Origin of twenty winks

Modeled after forty winks, from the humorous notion that if a short nap is forty winks then a very short nap is twenty winks (half that amount).

Questions about twenty winks

What does twenty winks mean?
Twenty winks means a very short sleep.
What is twenty winks in Bengali?
Twenty winks in Bengali is খুব অল্প সময়ের ঘুম. See Twenty winks meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is twenty winks?
Twenty winks is a noun.

Words near twenty winks in the dictionary

  1. twenty six
  2. twenty three
  3. twenty to the dozen
  4. twenty two
  5. twenty whole dollars
  6. twenty winks
  7. twenty-'leven
  8. twenty-eight
  9. twenty-eighth
  10. twenty-eighths
  11. twenty-eleven

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