winker

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɪŋkə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɪŋkəɹ/ Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ) Hyphenation: wink‧er === Etymology 1 === From wink (“blinking of only one eye”) +‎ -er (suffix forming agent nouns). ==== Noun ==== winker (plural winkers) A person or an animal that winks (“blinks with one eye; blinks with one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy”). A person who connives with another; a conniver. A thing which is used to wink with, or which winks. (automotive, informal) Synonym of turn signal (“each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which is used to indicate that the vehicle is moving left or right”); a blinker, an indicator. (equestrianism, also attributive and figurative, chiefly in the plural) Synonym of blinker (“a shield attached to the bridle of a horse or other domesticated animal to prevent it from seeing things behind it and to its side”). Synonym: blinder (music) A small bellows in an organ, regulated by a spring, which controls variations of wind pressure. (ornithology) The nictitating membrane (“transparent protective fold of skin acting as an inner eyelid”) of a birds's eye. (UK, dialectal or slang) An eye. (UK, US, dialectal or slang) An eyelash. Synonym: eye-winker ===== Derived terms ===== eye-winker winkered ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Clipping of tiddlywinker. ==== Noun ==== winker (plural winkers) (tiddlywinks) Clipping of tiddlywinker (“a player of the game of tiddlywinks”). ===== Translations ===== === References === === Further reading === winker (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia John Jamieson (1808), “WINKERS”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: […], volumes II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] University Press; for W[illiam] Creech, A[rchibald] Constable & Co., and W[illiam] Blackwood; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, T[homas] Cadell & W. Davies, and H. D. Symonds, →OCLC, column 1: “WINKERS, s[ubstantive]. The eye-lashes, […]”. “winker, n.”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. === Anagrams === Kerwin, Wrekin