clin d'œil — meaning in English
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English meaning
- wink verb To close and quickly reopen one eye as a signal, joke, or private message to someone.
Senses
clin d'œil is used for these senses in English:
- blink of an eye (idiom) A moment (a very short period of time).
- wink An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- wink (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
wink — full definition
- verb To close and quickly reopen one eye as a signal, joke, or private message to someone.
- verb To blink both eyes quickly, often without meaning to.
- verb Followed by "at": to deliberately ignore something, pretending not to notice.
- verb To flicker or gleam unsteadily, like a light in the distance.
- noun The act of winking, or the private signal sent by doing so.