twinkle
pronunciation
How to pronounce twinkle in British English:
UK [ˈtwɪŋkl]
How to pronounce twinkle in American English:
US [ˈtwɪŋkl]
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- Noun:
- a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
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- Verb:
- gleam or glow intermittently
- emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
Word Origin
- twinkle (v.)
- Old English twinclian "to twinkle, wink," frequentative of twincan "to wink, blink;" related to Middle High German zwinken, German zwinkern, and probably somehow imitative.Related: Twinkled; twinkling. The noun is recorded from 1540s. Phrase in the twinkling of an eye "in a very brief time" is attested from c. 1300.
Example
- 1. He has a ready smile and a twinkle in his eye .
- 2. We end with a tree that isn 't green at allaside from the green twinkle lights that are interspersed throughout the structure of this man-made creation .
- 3. It 's possible that the dominant web technology of 2017 doesn 't even exist yet , or is a twinkle in a stanford uni student 's eye ( or maybe a shanghai uni student ) .