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Twinked vs Twinned - What's the difference?

twinked | twinned |

As verbs the difference between twinked and twinned

is that twinked is past tense of twink while twinned is past tense of twin.

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.

    • twinned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (twin)

    • Synonyms

    * paired

    twin

    English

    Alternative forms

    * twynne (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
  • Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
  • A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
  • (US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
  • A twin crystal.
  • (modifier) Forming a pair of twins.
    • the twin boys
  • (modifier) Forming a matched pair.
    • twin socks

    Derived terms

    * conjoined twin * identical twin * Siamese twin *twincest

    Synonyms

    * twindle, twinling, doublet (in the sense of twins and triplets)

    See also

    * twyndyllyng * (hotel room) single, double * twain

    Verb

    (twinn)
  • (transitive, obsolete, outside, Scotland) To separate, divide.
  • (intransitive, obsolete, outside, Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
  • (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries).
    • Placetown in England is twinned with Machinville in France.
    For example, Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been heavily bombed during the war.
  • * Tennyson
    • Still we moved / Together, twinned , as horse's ear and eye.
  • To give birth to twins.
  • * 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
    • “I’ve run to tell ye,” said the junior shepherd, supporting his exhausted youthful frame against the doorpost, “that you must come directly. Two more ewes have twinned — that’s what’s the matter, Shepherd Oak.”
  • (obsolete) To be born at the same birth.
    • (Shakespeare)

    See also

    * sister city

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