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Twinked vs Twinkled - What's the difference?

twinked | twinkled |

As verbs the difference between twinked and twinkled

is that twinked is (twink) while twinkled is (twinkle).

twinked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (twink)

    • twink

    English

    Etymology 1

    Cognate with Middle High German zwinken (German zwinkern).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To twinkle, sparkle.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A twinkle; a glint.

    • Etymology 2

    Imitative.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The chaffinch.

    • Etymology 3

    From twinkie.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gay slang) A young, attractive, slim male, usually having little body hair.
  • *
  • (derogatory, slang) A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.
  • (Internet, derogatory) A player in a multi-user dungeon who engages in obnoxious or abusive behaviour.
  • * 1997 , "Flower of the Night", Looking for a mud'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.mud.diku )
    • I certainly don't consider myself a twink ; however it seems that anyone who doesn't agree with another's point of view is automatically labelled as such.
  • * 1997 , "Gov't Cheeze", [AD/REQUEST] Builders and Players (twinks need not apply)'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.mud.admin )
    • You will not find any stock. You will not find any easy mobs. You will not find any +100 dam 'big swords of I win'. You will not find twink mudders. You will not hear about how Jim the Kewl dOOd scored last night at his sister's birthday party. You will not find bots.
    Synonyms
    * (gay slang: young, attractive, slim man ): chicken * (weak or effeminate man''): poof (''British''), fag (''especially US''), faggot (''especially US )

    Etymology 4

    From the name of the Twink brand of correction fluid.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (New Zealand) A generic term for correction fluid or correction tape.

    • twinkled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (twinkle)

    • twinkle

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (of a source of light) to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer
    • We could see the lights of the village twinkling in the distance.
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
    • These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The western sky twinkled with stars.
  • (chiefly, of eyes) to be bright with delight
    • His shrewd little eyes twinkled roguishly.
  • to bat, blink or wink the eyes
  • * Mrs. Juliet M. Hueffer Soskice, "Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter",
    • She smiled and gave a little nod and twinkled her eyes
  • * L'Estrange
    • The owl fell a moping and twinkling .
  • to flit to and fro
  • * Dorothy Gilman, "Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle"
    • A butterfly twinkled among the vines

    Synonyms

    * glimmer * scintillate * wink

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a sparkle or glimmer of light
  • * Robert De Beaugrande, "Text, Discourse, and Process",
    • Soon the rocket was out of sight, and the flame was only seen as a tiny twinkle of light.
  • a sparkle of delight in the eyes.
    • He was a rotund, jolly man with a twinkle in his eye.
  • a flitting movement
  • * James Russell Lowell, "Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell",
    • I saw the twinkle of white feet,