eye-winker

English

Noun

eye-winker (plural eye-winkers)

(colloquial, US, dated) An eyelash.[1]
- 1858, Rose Terry Cooke, “Eben Jackson” in Somebody’s Neighbors, Boston: James R. Osgood, 1881, p. 8,
  She never said nothin’ for a minute; she flushed all up as red as a rose, and I see her little fingers was shakin’, and her eye-winkers shiny and wet […]
- 1870–1871, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter LXI, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, OCLC 275036, page 442:
  One ear was sot back on his [the cat’s] neck, ’n’ his tail was stove up, ’n’ his eye-winkers was swinged^{[sic – meaning singed]} off, ’n’ he was all blacked up with powder an’ smoke, an’ all sloppy with mud ’n’ slush f’m one end to the other.
- 1878, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Election Day in Poganuc”, in Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives, New York, N.Y.: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, OCLC 227701012, page 94:
  The oxen that drew his sled were sleek, well-fed beasts, the pride of Zeph’s heart, and as the red sunlight darted across the snowy hills their breath steamed up, a very luminous cloud of vapor, which in a few moments congealed in sparkling frost lines on their patient eye-winkers and every little projecting hair around their great noses.
- 1920 January, Zane Grey, chapter XX, in The Man of the Forest […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 1375142, page 287:
  Shore I’d stood there—stock-still—an’ never moved an eye-winker.
- 1939, Robert P. T. Coffin, chapter 17, in Captain Abby and Captain John, New York: Macmillan, page 296:
  John saw a whale and let the boys up out of their caulked cabin to have a look at him. He was a sixty-footer. He sailed along with them companionable as could be. Freddie could count the eye-winkers, he said, by his little dark eyes.

References

Compare John Jamieson, A Dictionary of the Scottish Language, abridged by John Johnstone, Edinburgh: William Tait, 1846, p. 222: “EE-WINKERS, s. The eye-lashes.”

[1] Compare John Jamieson, A Dictionary of the Scottish Language, abridged by John Johnstone, Edinburgh: William Tait, 1846, p. 222: “EE-WINKERS, s. The eye-lashes.”

单词	eye-winker
释义	eye-winker English Noun eye-winker (plural eye-winkers) (colloquial, US, dated) An eyelash.[1] 1858, Rose Terry Cooke, “Eben Jackson” in Somebody’s Neighbors, Boston: James R. Osgood, 1881, p. 8, She never said nothin’ for a minute; she flushed all up as red as a rose, and I see her little fingers was shakin’, and her eye-winkers shiny and wet […] 1870–1871, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter LXI, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, OCLC 275036, page 442: One ear was sot back on his [the cat’s] neck, ’n’ his tail was stove up, ’n’ his eye-winkers was swinged^{[sic – meaning singed]} off, ’n’ he was all blacked up with powder an’ smoke, an’ all sloppy with mud ’n’ slush f’m one end to the other. 1878, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Election Day in Poganuc”, in Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives, New York, N.Y.: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, OCLC 227701012, page 94: The oxen that drew his sled were sleek, well-fed beasts, the pride of Zeph’s heart, and as the red sunlight darted across the snowy hills their breath steamed up, a very luminous cloud of vapor, which in a few moments congealed in sparkling frost lines on their patient eye-winkers and every little projecting hair around their great noses. 1920 January, Zane Grey, chapter XX, in The Man of the Forest […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 1375142, page 287: Shore I’d stood there—stock-still—an’ never moved an eye-winker. 1939, Robert P. T. Coffin, chapter 17, in Captain Abby and Captain John, New York: Macmillan, page 296: John saw a whale and let the boys up out of their caulked cabin to have a look at him. He was a sixty-footer. He sailed along with them companionable as could be. Freddie could count the eye-winkers, he said, by his little dark eyes. References Compare John Jamieson, A Dictionary of the Scottish Language, abridged by John Johnstone, Edinburgh: William Tait, 1846, p. 222: “EE-WINKERS, s. The eye-lashes.”
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