Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which twinkles. Specifically
- n. A winker; a blinker; especially, the eye.
- n. That which glimmers, sparkles, or flashes; a sparkler.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner
Etymologies
- twinkle + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“Yon's the first twinkler," said Peke, seeing it at once, though his gaze was apparently fixed on the ground.”
“In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited.”
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“This pendant world, observe, is not the earth, as Addison understood it, but the entire sidereal universe, depicted not as the infinity we now know it to be, but as a definite object, so insulated in the vastness of space as to be perceptible to the distant Fiend as a minute star, and no larger in comparison with the courts of Heaven -- themselves not wholly seen -- than such a twinkler matched with the full-orbed moon.”
“May 6th, 2006 at 3:50 pm twinkler, 64: While it is true that an editorial represents the view of the newspaper while an op-ed piece is the view of a contributor, the choice of op-ed pieces and op-ed authors are not independent of the paper’s political bias.”
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My Little Ponies
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