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Sneer vs Wink - What's the difference?

sneer | wink |

As nouns the difference between sneer and wink

is that sneer is a facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn while wink is sign.

As a verb sneer

is to raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.

sneer

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn
  • To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly.
    • to sneer fulsome lies at a person

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.
  • A display of contempt; scorn.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=8 citation , passage=It was a casual sneer , obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}

    See also

    * snarl

    Anagrams

    * ----

    wink

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To close one's eyes.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I will wink , so shall the day seem night.
  • * Tillotson
    • They are not blind, but they wink .
  • (archaic) To turn a blind eye.
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:
    • Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.
  • * Herbert
    • And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks , and lets his humours reign.
  • * John Locke
    • Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.
  • (intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.
    • He winked at me.
    She winked her eye.
  • To twinkle.
  • To be dim and flicker.
    • The light winks .
  • To send an indication of agreement by winking.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
  • A brief time; an instant.
  • A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
  • * 1919 ,
    • I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.
  • A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.

    • Derived terms

    * nudge nudge wink wink * wink murder