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"To twinkle; to sparkle."
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"sense": "twinkle, sparkle",
"word": "kimmeltää"
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"text": "1921, Almira Bailey, “The Bay on Sunday Morning” in Vignettes of San Francisco, San Francisco: The San Francisco Journal, p. 18,\n[…] chug of the fishermen’s boats, twink of lights in the harbor at night […]"
},
{
"ref": "1934, D. H. Lawrence, “Smile”, in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories, Hamburg: Albatross, page 101",
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"word": "kimmellys"
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"_dis1": "68 32",
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"sense": "A twinkle; a glint",
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],
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"sense": "A twinkle; a glint",
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"sense": "A twinkle; a glint",
"word": "sulyap"
}
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"ref": "1893, Emily Sarah Holt, chapter 15, in All’s Well, London: J.F. Shaw, page 118",
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"To chirp or twitter."
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"ref": "1978, Armistead Maupin, “Full moon in Seacliff”, in Tales of the City, New York: Ballantine, pages 253–254",
"text": "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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{
"ref": "2006, Dennis D. Waskul, Phillip Vannini, Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body, page 135",
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"(gay slang) A young, attractive, slim male, usually having little body hair."
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"word": "tvinko"
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"_dis1": "84 13 4",
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],
"word": "minet"
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{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "weak or effeminate man",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "viado"
}
],
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}
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"ref": "2004, Richard A. Bartle, Designing Virtual Worlds, page 429",
"text": "Twinking happens in virtual worlds with PD, but not to the same extent.·",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Timothy Rowlands, Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of EverQuest",
"text": "However, the taboo surrounding twinking had all but disappeared by the time I started playing again in 2004.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Adam Drake, Shadow For Hire Books 1-4:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Alex Maven, ForeverQuest: Online Battle Arena",
"text": "That the twinked little brat doesn't want to mention that the only reason she won a single game was that daddy cut her a fat check.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"gaming",
"gaming#Noun"
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[
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[
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[
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[
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],
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"intransitive"
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"gaming"
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}
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},
{
"ipa": "[tʰw̥ɪŋk]"
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{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋk"
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/En-au-twink.ogg",
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"text": "Audio (AU)"
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