See wink on Wiktionary
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"text": "When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,\nFor all the day they view things unrespected;\nBut when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,\nAnd darkly bright are bright in dark directed.",
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"text": "Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.",
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"text": "But man doth know / The ſpring, whence all things flow: / And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks, and lets his humours reigne: / They make his life a conſtant blot, / And all the bloud of God to run in vain.",
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"text": "Therefore the scripture represents wicked men as without understanding […] they are not blind; but they wink; […] though they know God, yet they do not glorify him as God […]",
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"text": "But whenever obstinacy, which is an open defiance, appears, that cannot be winked at, or neglected, but must, in the first instance, be subdued and mastered; only care must be had, that we mistake not ; and we must be sure it is obstinacy, and nothing else.",
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"text": "For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.",
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"word": "غَمَز"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ačʻkʻov anel",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "աչքով անել"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "chisgar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "padmórhvacʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "падмо́ргваць"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "padmarhnúcʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "падмаргну́ць"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "padmíhvacʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "падмі́гваць"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "padmihnúcʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "падмігну́ць"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "bcl",
"lang": "Bikol Central",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "kiyat"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "namígvam",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "нами́гвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "primígvam",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "прими́гвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "fer l'ullet"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "picar l'ullet"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhǎyǎn",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "眨眼"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhǎ yǎnjīng",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "眨眼睛"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhǎ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "眨"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "mrkat"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "mrknout"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "blinke"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "knipogen"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "okulsigni"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "iskeä silmää"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "vilkuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "cligner de l’œil"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "faire un clin d’œil"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "chiscar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "piscar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "choscar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "tvalis čaḳvra",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "თვალის ჩაკვრა"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "tvalit nišneba",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "თვალით ნიშნება"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "de",
"english": "to somebody",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "zuzwinkern"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "zwinkern"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "goh",
"lang": "Old High German",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "winchen"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kleíno to máti",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "κλείνω το μάτι"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "dendíllō",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "δενδίλλω"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "skardamússō",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "σκαρδαμύσσω"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "kacsint"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "blikka"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "palpebragar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "ammiccare"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "strizzare l'occhio"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "fare l'occhiolino"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "biluxare"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"alt": "またたく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "matataku",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "瞬く"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "köz qysu",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "көз қысу"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "nun-eul kkamppagida",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "눈을 깜빡이다"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "köz irmöö",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "көз ирмөө"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "köz kısuu",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "көз кысуу"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "nicto"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "conniveo"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "pamirkšķināt"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "mirkšķināt"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "ḍoḷā mārṇe",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "डोळा मारणे"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "wynken"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"Jersey"
],
"word": "clyinn'ter"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"Jersey"
],
"word": "donner un clyîn"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"Jersey"
],
"word": "faithe un clyîn"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "blunke"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "wincian"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "osx",
"lang": "Old Saxon",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "winkon"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "češmak zadan",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "چشمک زدن"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "mrugnąć"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "puścić oko"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "piscar (o olho)"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "ch'illmipakuy"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "ch'ipihyay"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "face cu ochiul"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podmígivatʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подми́гивать"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podmignútʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "подмигну́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "migátʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "мига́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podmárgivatʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подма́ргивать"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podmorgnútʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "подморгну́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "priob"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "caog"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "намигнути"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "namignuti"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "mrkať"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "mrknúť"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "guiñar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "es",
"english": "Canarias",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "picar el ojo"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "brukim ai"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "göz kırpmak"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "kaş göz etmek"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidmórhuvaty",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "підмо́ргувати"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidmorhnúty",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "підморгну́ти"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "đá lông nheo"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 8 5 15 66 2",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "nháy mắt"
}
]
},
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"ref": "1899, Will T. Whitlock, “The Circumflex”, in Overland Monthly, Vol. XXXIII, second series:",
"text": "Down in the bottoms the sycamore and cottonwood are casting off their yellowing leaves; but the white oak will cling to her gorgeous finery till the blizzard comes shrieking up the gulch to wrest it from her, or until the winking prairie-fire leaps among her branches, and mounting upward to the highest limbs, finally leaves the vain beauty a blackened skeleton.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1920, Katherine Mansfield, Letter to Richard Murray (ca. September 19), Vincent O. Sullivan & Margaret Scott, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 4 (1996)",
"text": "Her kitchen is a series of Still Lives; the copper pans wink on the walls."
}
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"flicker"
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"(intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker."
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"_dis1": "4 6 2 5 2 81",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to twinkle",
"word": "blikat"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 6 2 5 2 81",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to twinkle",
"word": "flonkeren"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 6 2 5 2 81",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to twinkle",
"word": "twinkelen"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 6 2 5 2 81",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to twinkle",
"word": "vilkkua"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 6 2 5 2 81",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to twinkle",
"word": "tuikkia"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 6 2 5 2 81",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to twinkle",
"word": "mirgot"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 6 2 5 2 81",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to twinkle",
"word": "blinke"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 6 2 5 2 81",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mercátʹ",
"sense": "to twinkle",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "мерца́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 6 2 5 2 81",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to twinkle",
"word": "priob"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 6 2 5 2 81",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to twinkle",
"word": "caog"
},
{
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"name": "cog"
},
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"1": "sq",
"2": "vang",
"3": "",
"4": "tire, felloe"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
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"1": "sa",
"2": "वङ्गति",
"3": "",
"4": "(he, she) limps"
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"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English wynken, from Old English wincian (“to wink, make a sign, close the eyes, blink”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *winkōn (“to close one's eyes”), from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”). Cognate with Middle Low German winken (“to blink, wink”), German winken (“to nod, beckon, make a sign”). Related also to Saterland Frisian wäänke, Dutch wenken (“to beckon, motion”), Latin vacillare (“sway”), Lithuanian véngti (“to swerve, avoid”), Albanian vang (“tire, felloe”), Sanskrit वङ्गति (vaṅgati, “(he, she) limps”).",
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"third-person"
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},
{
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"participle",
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},
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"ref": "1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 43”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:",
"text": "When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,\nFor all the day they view things unrespected;\nBut when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,\nAnd darkly bright are bright in dark directed.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To close one's eyes in sleep."
],
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"(obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes in sleep."
],
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"intransitive",
"obsolete"
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{
"ref": "1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Art thou ashamed to kiss? then wink again,\nAnd I will wink; so shall the day seem night […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1816, The Black Dwarf, Walter Scott, Chapter the Fifth:",
"text": "I kept my eyes shut, after once glancing at him; and, I protest, I thought I saw him still, though I winked as close as ever I could.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To close one's eyes."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To close one's eyes."
],
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"intransitive"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:",
"text": "Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1638, George Herbert, “Miserie”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, 5th edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] T[homas] Buck, and R[oger] Daniel, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, →OCLC, page 94:",
"text": "But man doth know / The ſpring, whence all things flow: / And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks, and lets his humours reigne: / They make his life a conſtant blot, / And all the bloud of God to run in vain.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], 8th edition, London: […] T. Goodwin, B[enjamin] Tooke, and J. Pemberton, […]; J. Round […], and J[acob] Tonson] […], published 1720, →OCLC:",
"text": "Therefore the scripture represents wicked men as without understanding […] they are not blind; but they wink; […] though they know God, yet they do not glorify him as God […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, § 79:",
"text": "But whenever obstinacy, which is an open defiance, appears, that cannot be winked at, or neglected, but must, in the first instance, be subdued and mastered; only care must be had, that we mistake not ; and we must be sure it is obstinacy, and nothing else.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author Attends Them. The Manner in which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related. He Returns to England.”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 306–307:",
"text": "For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye."
],
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"at",
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"look the other way",
"look the other way"
],
[
"turn a blind eye",
"turn a blind eye"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye."
],
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{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "connive"
},
{
"word": "shut one's eyes"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1861, George, chapter VI, in Silas Marner:",
"text": "The pipes began to be puffed in a silence which had an air of severity; the more important customers, who drank spirits and sat nearest the fire, staring at each other as if a bet were depending on the first man who ‘’’winked’’’ […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink."
],
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[
"blink",
"blink"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
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"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He winked at me. She winked her eye. He winked his assent.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1912, Edwin L. Sabin, chapter VIII, in With Carson and Frémont:",
"text": "Oliver saw Kit Carson wink at the lieutenant and Lucien Maxwell, as the speech reached them, and it was evident that these three leaders did not believe the Indian tales. Consequently he himself decided that the reports of \"evil spirits\" awaiting were all bosh.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)"
],
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"blink",
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"message"
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],
[
"suggestion",
"suggestion"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1899, Will T. Whitlock, “The Circumflex”, in Overland Monthly, Vol. XXXIII, second series:",
"text": "Down in the bottoms the sycamore and cottonwood are casting off their yellowing leaves; but the white oak will cling to her gorgeous finery till the blizzard comes shrieking up the gulch to wrest it from her, or until the winking prairie-fire leaps among her branches, and mounting upward to the highest limbs, finally leaves the vain beauty a blackened skeleton.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1920, Katherine Mansfield, Letter to Richard Murray (ca. September 19), Vincent O. Sullivan & Margaret Scott, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 4 (1996)",
"text": "Her kitchen is a series of Still Lives; the copper pans wink on the walls."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker."
],
"links": [
[
"gleam",
"gleam"
],
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"twinkle",
"twinkle"
],
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"flicker",
"flicker"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈwɪŋk/"
},
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],
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{
"word": "nictitate"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḡamaza",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "غَمَزَ"
},
{
"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḡamaz",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic"
],
"word": "غَمَز"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ačʻkʻov anel",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "աչքով անել"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "chisgar"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "padmórhvacʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "падмо́ргваць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "padmarhnúcʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "падмаргну́ць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "padmíhvacʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "падмі́гваць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "padmihnúcʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "падмігну́ць"
},
{
"code": "bcl",
"lang": "Bikol Central",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "kiyat"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "namígvam",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "нами́гвам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "primígvam",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "прими́гвам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "fer l'ullet"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "picar l'ullet"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhǎyǎn",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "眨眼"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhǎ yǎnjīng",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "眨眼睛"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhǎ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "眨"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "mrkat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "mrknout"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "blinke"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "knipogen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "okulsigni"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "iskeä silmää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "vilkuttaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "cligner de l’œil"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "faire un clin d’œil"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "chiscar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "piscar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "choscar"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "tvalis čaḳvra",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "თვალის ჩაკვრა"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "tvalit nišneba",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "თვალით ნიშნება"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "to somebody",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "zuzwinkern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "zwinkern"
},
{
"code": "goh",
"lang": "Old High German",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "winchen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kleíno to máti",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "κλείνω το μάτι"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "dendíllō",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "δενδίλλω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "skardamússō",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "σκαρδαμύσσω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "kacsint"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "blikka"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "palpebragar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "ammiccare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "strizzare l'occhio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "fare l'occhiolino"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "biluxare"
},
{
"alt": "またたく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "matataku",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "瞬く"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "köz qysu",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "көз қысу"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "nun-eul kkamppagida",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "눈을 깜빡이다"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "köz irmöö",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "көз ирмөө"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "köz kısuu",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "көз кысуу"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "nicto"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "conniveo"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "pamirkšķināt"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "mirkšķināt"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "ḍoḷā mārṇe",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "डोळा मारणे"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "wynken"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"Jersey"
],
"word": "clyinn'ter"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"Jersey"
],
"word": "donner un clyîn"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"Jersey"
],
"word": "faithe un clyîn"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "blunke"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "wincian"
},
{
"code": "osx",
"lang": "Old Saxon",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "winkon"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "češmak zadan",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "چشمک زدن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "mrugnąć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "puścić oko"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "piscar (o olho)"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "ch'illmipakuy"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "ch'ipihyay"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"word": "face cu ochiul"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podmígivatʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подми́гивать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podmignútʹ",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "подмигну́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "migátʹ",
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"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
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"word": "підмо́ргувати"
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"word": "đá lông nheo"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion",
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"word": "a nod is as good as a wink"
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"word": "a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse"
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"word": "a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat"
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{
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{
"word": "nudge nudge wink wink"
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{
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{
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{
"word": "tip the wink"
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{
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{
"word": "wink murder"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "brief time, instant",
"word": "szemhunyásnyi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief time, instant",
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"word": "attimo"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief time, instant",
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],
"word": "guizzo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief time, instant",
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"word": "lampo"
},
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"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "brief time, instant",
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{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "brief time, instant",
"word": "mirklis"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "brief time, instant",
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"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mig",
"sense": "brief time, instant",
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"masculine"
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"word": "миг"
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "brief time, instant",
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],
"word": "priobadh"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "reppapāṭu",
"sense": "brief time, instant",
"word": "రెప్పపాటు"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "smallest possible amount",
"word": "vilaus"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "smallest possible amount",
"tags": [
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"neuter"
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"word": "Fitzelchen"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "smallest possible amount",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zipfel"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "subtle allusion",
"word": "vihjaus"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "subtle allusion",
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],
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},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "subtle allusion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fingerzeig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "subtle allusion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Andeutung"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
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"word": "oczko"
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