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twink¹
- /ˈtwɪŋk/
- [ˈtʰwɪŋk]
Rhymes with -ɪŋk
Where it comes from
From Middle English twinken, twynken, from Old English *twincian (“to wink; twinkle”), from Proto-West Germanic *twinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *twinkōną, an augmented form (with formative *-kōną; see English -k) of Proto-Germanic *twint- (“to twinkle”). Cognate with Middle High German zwinken, zwingen, modern German zwinkern (“to wink; twinkle”), Middle Dutch twinc (“a blink”), Middle High German zwinzen, zwinzern (“to blink, blink hard”).
verb twinks · twinking · twinked
- To twinkle; to sparkle.
- To wink.
noun twinks
- One or more very small, short bursts of light. 1921, Almira Bailey, “The Bay on Sunday Morning” in Vignettes of San Francisco, San Francisco: The San Francisco Journal, p. 18, […] chug of the fishermen’s boats, twink of lights in the harbor at night […]
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A very short moment of time.
[…] in a twink she won me to her love.
Similar: instant, twinkling, bat of an eye, bit, blink of an eye, crack, eyeblink, flash, glimpse, half a mo, jiff, jiffy
twink²
- /ˈtwɪŋk/
- [ˈtʰwɪŋk]
Rhymes with -ɪŋk
Where it comes from
Imitative of the sound.
noun twinks
- The chaffinch.
- A sound made by the chaffinch and some other birds. The chaffinch 'twinks, twinks!' sets up his topknot, and sings his very best to his mate that is sitting near him. Even the hedge sparrow and the wren sing well, although few would give them credit for it.
verb twinks · twinking · twinked
- To chirp or twitter.
twink³
- /ˈtwɪŋk/
- [ˈtʰwɪŋk]
Rhymes with -ɪŋk
Where it comes from
From twinkie. More at Twink § Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
noun twinks
- A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. “Where are the twinks anyway? They usually have the decency to provide one or two decorative twinks… Jesus, who needs to waste a night staring at these tired old Gucci queens.”
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A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.
“I thought testosterone would turn me into a man, but it turned me into a twink,” Tom, who is nonbinary, revealed to a cackling West Village audience last week at the Greenwich House Theater in Manhattan.
Similar: pretty boy, fairy, bading, big girl's blouse, cockney, cot-quean, cupcake, dudelet, fakaleiti, femboy, gentleman, ginch
- A new recruit. But most of the lifers had never seen 'Nam and most of the twinks—the new recruits—had little idea of where they were going […] [page 61:] twinks waiting to be assigned to their units […] [page 94:] loaded aboard a chopper with the day's resupply of twinks to join Charlie Company […]
- A lower-level character in a roleplaying game (MMO) who is artificially overgeared or overpowered, due to being given advanced equipment or resources via a higher-level character controlled by the same player. Bind-on-account was an innovation that allowed players to transfer goods to their own twinks, but not to those of other players.
- A player in a multi-user dungeon (MUD) who engages in abusive min-maxing behaviour and exploits or took advantage of other players for personal gain. I certainly don't consider myself a twink; however it seems that anyone who doesn't agree with another's point of view is automatically labelled as such.
verb twinks · twinking · twinked
- To engage in obnoxious or abusive behaviour in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game, for example by griefing or by equipping a low-level character with advanced equipment from another player. Twinking happens in virtual worlds with PD, but not to the same extent.
twink⁴
- /ˈtwɪŋk/
- [ˈtʰwɪŋk]
Rhymes with -ɪŋk
Where it comes from
Genericized trademark of Twink, a brand of correction fluid in New Zealand.
noun
- Correction fluid or correction tape.
Twink⁵
noun
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Synonym of correction fluid.
Similar: correction fluid
Translations
Talk about this word "twink." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/twink. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. twink. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/twink "twink." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/twink.Cite this
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title = {twink},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/twink},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
