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▪ I. winker1|ˈwɪŋkə(r)|
[f. wink v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who winks (in various senses). rare.
1549Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 94 He was no gyfte taker, he was no wynker, he was no bywalker. 1550Bale Image Both Ch. ii. xiii. f vij, That franticke papist Iohn Eckius, and our wynchester the wynker of wyles. c1590in Collect. B.L. Ballads (1867) 254 Cat will after kind, All winkers are not blind. 1649Bulwer Pathomyot. ii. iv. 164 True Cowards who are of the worse Sect of winkers are wont to shut their Eyes. 1715Pope Let. to Craggs 15 July, A sett of nodders, winkers, and whisperers. 1820J. Chambers Illustr. Worc. 539 ‘Are you a gentleman and wink at whist?’ This was too much for the winker. 1902Sat. Rev. 19 July 77/1 Self-conscious winkers and gigglers over their own misconduct.
2. a. Chiefly pl. applied to the eyes or the eyelashes. Now dial. or slang.
1734in Mrs. Delany Autobiogr. (1861) I. 519 As soon as my winkers are opened I am always blessed with one of your epistles. 1808Jamieson, Winkers, the eye-lashes. S. 1893Boy's Own Paper Jan. 157/3 Here, youngster, clap your winker to this glass. 1894Crockett Raiders xxvi. 226 Curling upward like the winkers of an old man's eye.
b. The nictitating membrane of a bird's eye.
1884Coues N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 180.
3. a. pl. (rarely sing.) = blinker 2 b; also attrib. Also fig. or allusively.
1583Fulke Def., Confut. Papists 32 He is the common packhorse of the Papistes,..he weareth a paire of winkers ouer his eyes like a milhorse. 1746–7Mrs. Delany in Autobiogr. (1861) II. 449 Most people wear vast winkers to their heads. 1755J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 29 Her cap standing beyond her eyes like a coach-horse's winkers. 1794Felton Carriages (1801) II. 136. 1859 Carriage Builders' Art Jrnl. I. 43/1 The winker-cheek is cut eight inches from buckle to buckle. 1882J. Philipson Harness 18 Hogskin is utilized for the pads, winkers, &c. of brown harness.
Comb.1845Browning in Lett. R. B. & Eliz. B. Barrett (1899) I. 79, I am set going with a hand, winker-wise, on each side of my head.
b. transf. Spectacles rare.
1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master i. 11 A patent pair of goggle winkers, Conceal'd from public view his blinkers.
4. A direction indicator on a motor vehicle in the form of a flashing light; = indicator 3 g.
1951Autocar 2 Nov. 1411/1 Another advantage of the ‘winkers’ is the fact that no mechanical fault can develop. 1960News Chron. 21 July 6/4 On the M1..there are no curves to cancel the winkers. 1967Autocar 28 Dec. 2/2 The main-beam and winker lights have little, pull-down ‘eyelids’. 1970A. Sillitoe Start in Life v. 255, I put on the winkers, swung out, and swept forward.
Hence (in sense 3) ˈwinkered a.
1804M. Wilmot Let. 5 July in Russ. Jrnls. (1934) i. 110 Women..dress'd in a sort of winker'd cap of pearls which showes the face very becomingly. 1907J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World iii. 61 That's the play⁓boy on the winkered mule.
▪ II. winker2
Short for tiddlywinker (b) s.v. tiddlywink. orig. U.S.
1958N.Y. Times 9 May 28 Tomorrow..the Cantab Winkers play the Oxonian Tiddlers in Oxford. 1965Times 5 Jan. 116 The nation's ‘winkers’ have two ambitions for 1965. 1979Harvard Mag. May–June 39 Winkers lost interest in recruiting new winkers. |