eye-wink

- That the Co-president managed to utter this without emitting an ironic chortle or displaying a facial twitch or eye-wink that might indicate he was pulling our collective leg was not reported by those journalists in attendance.

Cheney's Priorities 2008

But that lasted only for the space of an eye-wink.

Year of the Unicorn Norton, Andre 1965

In an eye-wink of galactic time all the violence is locked up in nice, stable compounds.

Deathworld Harry Harrison

Now those old zigzag rail fences were beautiful for the fairies because a hundred fairies could sit on one rail and thousands and thousands of them could sit on the zigzags and sing pla-sizzy pla-sizzy, softer than an eye-wink, softer than a baby's thumb, all on a moonlight summer night.

Rootabaga Stories Carl Sandburg 1922

Yes, her mastery of the eye-wink and ankle-flash cemented her "maverick" status well-enough to take in a good number of rubes who didn't understand the difference between an extended, self-conducted Fluff-O-Gram and a debate with actual questions, but her numbers tanked when the rubes woke up and saw her as a blathering idiot.

Bring It On! 2008

"They took me to Pawnee Rock before they let me know anything, except that my scalp would hang to the old chief's war-spear if I tried one eye-wink to get away from them.

Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899