wink
/ˈwɪŋk/ verbo B2En español: guiñar, picar el ojo, cucar, bizquear
- 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.) · He winked at me. She winked her eye. He winked his assent.
- To gleam fitfully or intermittently; to twinkle; to flicker.
He/she/it winks · Pasado winked · Participio pasado winked · Forma en -ing winking
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- wink
- He/she/it
- winks
- Pasado
- winked
- Participio pasado
- winked
- Forma en -ing
- winking
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!” (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, “A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!”) The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.
Why, I haven’t had a wink of sleep these three weeks!”
He seldom smoked, for Marilla set her face against it as a filthy habit; but at certain times and seasons he felt driven to it and then Marilla winked at the practice, realizing that a mere man must have some vent for his emotions.
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