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Meaning of eyewink in English:

eyewink

noun

  • 1An act of blinking or (now especially) winking.

  • 2The brief space of time which it takes to blink or wink: an instant, a moment. Chiefly in "in an eyewink". Compare "wink", eye-blink .

Origin

Late 16th century (in an earlier sense). From eye + wink.

Pronunciation

eyewink

/ˈʌɪwɪŋk/