twinkle

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a sparkle or glimmer of light

Soon the rocket was out of sight, and the flame was only seen as a tiny twinkle of light.

to bat, blink or wink the eyes

She smiled and gave a little nod and twinkled her eyes and said, .

to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer

We could see the lights of the village twinkling in the distance.

a flitting movement

I saw the twinkle of white feet,.

to be bright with delight

His shrewd little eyes twinkled roguishly.

a sparkle of delight in the eyes

He was a rotund, jolly man with a twinkle in his eye.

to flit to and fro

A butterfly twinkled among the vines .

{v} toopen and shut the eye, to sparkle
when rapidly repeated
A brief flash or gleam, esp
To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate
gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"
a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?
If you say that someone's eyes twinkle, you mean that their face expresses good humour or amusement. She saw her mother's eyes twinkle with amusement. Twinkle is also a noun. A kindly twinkle came into her eyes
emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
{f} sparkle, produce a flickering light; (usually of the eyes) to be bright with pleasure or joy; move quickly and lightly on one's feet; blink, wink (Archaic)
To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink
A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye
a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
If a star or a light twinkles, it shines with an unsteady light which rapidly and constantly changes from bright to faint. At night, lights twinkle in distant villages across the valleys. a band of twinkling diamonds
The time of a wink; a twinkling
{i} sparkle, flicker, faint uneven light; amount of time it takes to wink; wink (Archaic)
twinkle toes
Someone with extraordinary footwork

He's a good dancer, but he's no match to twinkletoes over there.

Twinkle,little star twinkle
a nursery rhyme (=an old song or poem for children) . The rhyme goes: Twinkle, twinkle, little star,/How I wonder what you are./Up above the world so high,/Like a diamond in the sky
twinkling
The time it takes to blink the eyes
twinkling
Sparkling intermittently
twinkling
A shining with fast intermittent light
twinkling
Present participle of twinkle
twinkling
{n} a motion of the eye, a spark of light
To twinkle
twink
To twinkle
wink
twinkled
past of twinkle
twinkler
{i} someone or something that twinkles, one or that which sparkles (often refers to eyes)
twinkler
an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner
twinkler
One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye
twinkles
plural of twinkle
twinkling
random light fluctuations observed when radiation from an apparently very small light source passes through a disturbed gaseous medium
twinkling
{i} action of shining with a flickering light; amount of time it takes to wink; wink (Archaic)
twinkling
shining intermittently with a sparkling light; "twinkling stars"
twinkling
a very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
twinkling
in the twinkling of an eye in a twinkling very quickly
twinkling
A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars
twinkling
The time of a wink; a moment; an instant
twinkling
(See Bed-Post )
twinkling
The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle
twinkly
that twinkles
twinkle
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