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winkie

winkie is the alternative form of winky.

Meaning of winky

Noun (1)

winky (plural winkies)

  1. An emoticon or smiley that shows a winking face, such as ;-) or ๐Ÿ˜‰.
    • Crap, he sent a winky back. That was not good. Mixed signals were a bad way to start any kind of beginning, whether it was love or friendship.2015, Mara Reitsma, Amethyst Attraction, Lulu.com, โ†’ISBN, page 113

Noun (2)

winky (plural winkies)

  1. (childish, slang) The penis.
    • โ€œThey never shower with us,โ€ says Shipley, glancing up from his calculator. โ€œIโ€™ve never even seen their winkies.โ€1982, Robert Lipsyte, Inside Sports, page 71

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Forms of winkie

pluralwinkies

Questions about winkie

What is winkie the alternative form of?
Winkie is the alternative form of winky.

Words near winkie in the dictionary

  1. winkfest
  2. winkfests
  3. Winkfield
  4. Winkfields
  5. Winkhill
  6. winkie
  7. winkies
  8. winkin'
  9. winkiness
  10. winking
  11. winking at

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Adapted from Wiktionary: winkie (page history and authors); winky (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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