twink

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One or more very small, short bursts of light.
    — 1921, Almira Bailey, “The Bay on Sunday Morning” in Vignettes of San Francisco, San Francisco: The San Francisco Journal, p. 18, […] chug of the fishermen’s boats, twink of lights in the harbor at night […]
  2. The chaffinch.
  3. A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. slang
    — “Where are the twinks anyway? They usually have the decency to provide one or two decorative twinks… Jesus, who needs to waste a night staring at these tired old Gucci queens.”
  4. Correction fluid or correction tape. New-Zealand,uncountable
  5. A very short moment of time.
    — […] in a twink she won me to her love.
  6. A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not. derogatory,slang
    — “I thought testosterone would turn me into a man, but it turned me into a twink,” Tom, who is nonbinary, revealed to a cackling West Village audience last week at the Greenwich House Theater in Manhattan.
  7. A lower-level character in a roleplaying game (MMO) which is artificially overgeared or overpowered, due to being given advanced equipment or resources via a higher-level character controlled by the same player. Internet,derogatory,mildly
    — Bind-on-account was an innovation that allowed players to transfer goods to their own twinks, but not to those of other players.
  8. A player in a multi-user dungeon (MUD) who engages in abusive min-maxing behaviour and exploits or took advantage of other players for personal gain. Internet,dated,derogatory
    — I certainly don't consider myself a twink; however it seems that anyone who doesn't agree with another's point of view is automatically labelled as such.
动词 v.
  1. To twinkle; to sparkle.
  2. To chirp or twitter.
  3. To engage in obnoxious or abusive behaviour in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game, for example by griefing or by equipping a low-level character with advanced equipment from another player. derogatory,intransitive
    — Twinking happens in virtual worlds with PD, but not to the same extent.
  4. To wink. dialectal

词形变化

twinks present,singular,third-person twinking participle,present twinked participle,past twinked past twinks plural twinks plural twinks present,singular,third-person twinking participle,present twinked participle,past twinked past twinks plural twinks present,singular,third-person twinking participle,present twinked participle,past twinked past

词汇关系

衍生词
twinkle twink death twinkhood twinkification twunk

词源

词源 1
From Middle English twinken, twynken, from Old English *twincian (“to wink; twinkle”), from Proto-West Germanic *twinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *twinkōną, an augmented form (with formative *-kōną; see English -k) of Proto-Germanic *twint- (“to twinkle”). Cognate with Middle High German zwinken, zwingen, modern German zwinkern (“to wink; twinkle”), Middle Dutch twinc (“a blink”), Middle High German zwinzen, zwinzern (“to blink, blink hard”).
词源 2
Imitative of the sound.
词源 3
From twinkie. More at Twink § Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
词源 4
Genericized trademark of Twink, a brand of correction fluid in New Zealand.
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