twinkle
twing kuhl
- n a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
- n merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes - v gleam or glow intermittently
- v emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?
- Twinkle, twinkle Kenneth Starr, Now we see how brave you are!--To enter, stop booing, adapt a nursery rhyme of your choice and compose a stanza on your favorite newsmaker.
- But Ben Franklin, that genial urban entrepreneur, seems made of flesh rather than of marble, addressable by nickname, and he turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle .
- No phenomenon of nature is too small to escape the curiosity of modern science, not even the twinkle of distant little stars.