twink

Meanings

Verb

• To twinkle; sparkle
• To wink
• To engage in obnoxious or abusive behaviour in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game, for example by griefing or by equipping a low-level character with advanced equipment from another player.
• To chirp or twitter.

Noun

• One or more very small, short bursts of light.
• A very short moment of time.
• The chaffinch.
• A young, attractive, slim male, usually having little body hair.
• A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.
• A player (or character created by a player) in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game who engages in obnoxious or abusive behaviour, especially one who uses a higher level character to give advanced equipment to one of their own lower-level characters.
• Correction fluid or correction tape.

Origin

• From Middle English twinken, twynken, from Old English *twincian, from Proto-West Germanic *twinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *twinkōną, an augmented form (with formative *-kōną; see English -k) of Proto-Germanic *twint-. Cognate with Middle High German zwinken, zwingen, modern German zwinkern, Middle Dutch twinc, Middle High German zwinzen, zwinzern.
• Imitative.
• From twinkie.
• From the name of the Twink brand of correction fluid.