wink-wink

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of turning a blind eye to something. colloquial
    — In its totality, the serial 'roid revelations over the past week have created suspicions that a system of wink-winks and pinkie swears among stars, management and agents has existed through the last minute of baseball's unpoliced steroid era.
动词 v.
  1. To turn a blind eye to something; to make an indirect reference to something unspoken, especially something indecent. colloquial,intransitive
    — But instead of wink-winking at the law, I think the brave and righteous thing to do is to celebrate marijuana's true and most profound medicinal quality: It makes people feel good.

词形变化

wink-winks present,singular,third-person wink-winking participle,present wink-winked participle,past wink-winked past wink-winks plural

词源

词源 1
As with nudge nudge wink wink, a reference to alluding in a nonverbal way via gestures.
词源 2
As with nudge nudge wink wink, a reference to alluding in a nonverbal way via gestures.
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