What does "twink" mean?
One or more very small, short bursts of light.
Twink
/twɪŋk/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: One or more very small, short bursts of light.
- Grammar: twink is listed as noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: boost, breath, coup, crack.
- Useful contrasts: bear, diminish, dull.
- Usage evidence: A twink performed a blowjob on me.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 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 […]"
- 2 The chaffinch.
- 3 A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. slang
"“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.”"
- 4 Correction fluid or correction tape. New-Zealand, uncountable
- 5 Synonym of correction fluid.
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- 6 A very short moment of time.
"[…] in a twink she won me to her love."
- 7 A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not. derogatory, slang
"“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."
- 8 A lower-level character in a roleplaying game (MMO) which is artificially overgeared or overpowered, due to being given advanced equipment or resources via a higher-level character controlled by the same player. Internet, derogatory, mildly
"Bind-on-account was an innovation that allowed players to transfer goods to their own twinks, but not to those of other players."
- 9 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. Internet, dated, derogatory
"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
- 1 To twinkle; to sparkle.
- 2 To chirp or twitter.
- 3 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. derogatory, intransitive
"Twinking happens in virtual worlds with PD, but not to the same extent."
- 4 To wink. dialectal
Example
"A twink performed a blowjob on me."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "twink"?
Common synonyms include: boost, breath, coup, crack, empower, enhance.
How do you use "twink" in a sentence?
A twink performed a blowjob on me.
How do you pronounce "twink"?
Pronounced /twɪŋk/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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”).
Etymology 2
Imitative of the sound.
Etymology 3
From twinkie. More at Twink § Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 4
Genericized trademark of Twink, a brand of correction fluid in New Zealand.