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twinkle

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1. twinkle - Noun

2. twinkle - Verb

Meaning

To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.

To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.

A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.

A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.

The time of a wink; a twinkling.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle. Marilyn Monroe

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. Lewis Carroll

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. Marilyn Monroe

Continuous as the stars that shine; And twinkle on the milky way. William Wordsworth

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers. Diana Wynne Jones

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars. Khushwant Singh

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