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twinky

/ˈtwɪŋki/

twinky adjective: being or resembling a twink (“young, attractive, slim man”).

Adjective

twinky (comparative twinkier, superlative twinkiest)

  1. (slang) Being or resembling a twink (“young, attractive, slim man”).
    • Daniel is the sole sophomore, a twinky raccoon who obsesses about his weight. Jake, the cougar who's his current fling, is a senior like me, though he didn't join FLAG until our sophomore year.2010, Kyell Gold, Out of Position, Kyell Gold, →ISBN, page 36
    • Tyler sprung awake to see Simon Fujisawa, his roommate, one of the twinkiest twenty-one-year-old “twinks” in existence, standing in his bedroom doorway Slim, toned, hairless, half-Japanese and half-Portuguese, with jet-black hair styled ...2013, Lawrence Ferber, Bearcity: The Novel, Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 4

Forms of twinky

comparativetwinkier
superlativetwinkiest

Origin of twinky

From twink + -y.

Words that rhyme with twinky

18 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about twinky

What does twinky mean?
Twinky means being or resembling a twink (“young, attractive, slim man”).
What part of speech is twinky?
Twinky is an adjective.
How do you pronounce twinky?
Twinky is pronounced /ˈtwɪŋki/.

Words near twinky in the dictionary

  1. twinklingly
  2. twinklings
  3. twinkly
  4. twinkly-eyed
  5. twinks
  6. twinky
  7. twinleaf
  8. twinleafs
  9. twinless
  10. twinlessness
  11. twinlike

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