FromMiddle English twinken twynken Old English *twincian ( “ to wink; twinkle ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *twinkōn Proto-Germanic *twinkōną *-kōną English -k Proto-Germanic *twint- ( “ to twinkle ” ) . Cognate withMiddle High German zwinken zwingen German zwinkern ( “ to wink; twinkle ” ) ,Middle Dutch twinc ( “ a blink ” ) ,Middle High German zwinzen zwinzern ( “ to blink, blink hard ” ) .
twink (third-person singular simple present twinks present participle twinking simple past and past participle twinked
Totwinkle ; tosparkle . ( now dialectal ) wink .twink (plural twinks
One or more very small, short bursts of light.Synonyms: twinkle glint 1921 , Almira Bailey, “The Bay on Sunday Morning” inVignettes of San Francisco, San Francisco: The San Francisco Journal, p. 18,[1] [ …] chug of the fishermen’s boats,twink of lights in the harbor at night [ …] 1934 D. H. Lawrence , “Smile”, inThe Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories [2] 101 :But even as he went, the smile began to come on his face, caught by the tail of the sturdy sister’s black eye, with its everlastingtwink .
A very shortmoment of time.Synonyms: instant twinkling see also Thesaurus:moment c. 1590–1592 (date written)William Shakespeare , “The Taming of the Shrew ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act II, scene i] :[ …] twink she won me to her love.
1893 Emily Sarah Holt , chapter 15, inAll’s Well [3] 118 :I’d have known all about it in half atwink .
1957 Jack Kerouac , chapter 3, inOn the Road →OCLC [ … ] twink of nothing, I was in another big high cab, all set to go hundreds of miles across the night, and was I happy!
Imitative of the sound.
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twink (plural twinks
( gay slang ) young ,attractive ,slim man, usually having littlebody hair .Synonym: chicken Antonym: bear 1978 Armistead Maupin , “Full moon in Seacliff”, inTales of the City [4] 253–254 :“Where are thetwinks anyway? They usually have the decency to provide one or two decorativetwinks … Jesus, who needs to waste a night staring at these tired old Gucci queens.”
2006 Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body , page135 :[ …] twink ".
( derogatory , slang ) Synonyms: ( UK ) poof ( especially US ) fag faggot see also Thesaurus:effeminate man 2023 December 14, Gina Cherelus, “The Trans Comic Looking for Love ‘at the End of the World’”, inThe New York Times [5] →ISSN “I thought testosterone would turn me into a man, but it turned me into atwink ,” Tom, who is nonbinary, revealed to a cackling West Village audience last week at the Greenwich House Theater in Manhattan.
( online gaming , mildly derogatory ) lower-level character in aroleplaying game (MMO ) which isartificially overgeared oroverpowered , due to being givenadvanced equipment orresources via ahigher-level character controlled by the sameplayer .[from late 1990s] 2015 MMOs from the Inside Out , page154 :Bind-on-account was an innovation that allowed players to transfer goods to their owntwinks , but not to those of other players.
2016 Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of EverQuest , page71 :Characters who were obvioustwinks , possessing equipment well beyond their means, were subject to public criticism.
( online gaming , derogatory , dated ) player in amulti-user dungeon (MUD ) who engages inabusive min-maxing behaviour andexploits or took advantage of other players for personal gain.[1980s and 1990s] 1997 rec.games.mud.diku Usenet ):I certainly don't consider myself atwink ; however it seems that anyone who doesn't agree with another's point of view is automatically labelled as such.
1997 [ AD/REQUEST] Builders and Players (twinks need not apply)”, inrec.games.mud.admin Usenet ):You will not find any stock. You will not find any easy mobs. You will not find any +100 dam 'big swords of I win'. You will not findtwink mudders. You will not hear about how Jim the Kewl dOOd scored last night at his sister's birthday party. You will not find bots.
gay slang: young, attractive, slim man
artificially overgeared or overpowered low-level character
twink (third-person singular simple present twinks present participle twinking simple past and past participle twinked
( intransitive , gaming , derogatory ) multi-user dungeon or otherroleplaying game , for example bygriefing or by equipping a low-level character with advancedequipment from another player.2004 Designing Virtual Worlds , page429 :Twinking happens in virtual worlds with PD, but not to the same extent.
2016 Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of EverQuest :However, the taboo surroundingtwinking had all but disappeared by the time I started playing again in 2004.
2018 Shadow For Hire Books 1-4 :He used real money to buy large amounts of in-game gold then 'twinked' his new character with the best gear, upgrading as his level rapidly increased.
2020 ForeverQuest: Online Battle Arena :That thetwinked little brat doesn't want to mention that the only reason she won a single game was that daddy cut her a fat check.
Genericized trademark ofTwink , a brand of correction fluid in New Zealand.
twink (uncountable
( New Zealand ) Correction fluid orcorrection tape .Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish twink
twink m plural twinks
( LGBTQ slang ) twink ( a young attractive man ) Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish twink
IPA (key ) : /t(ɯ)ˈvinc/ Hyphenation:twink twink (definite accusative twinki plural twinkler
( LGBTQ slang ) twink ( a young attractive man ) 2023 October 8, @lavuqueovic,X (formerly Twitter)[7] 2025 August 14, @pomuyomi,X (formerly Twitter)[8] 
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