TWINKLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twinkling mean? 

• TWINKLING (noun)
  The noun TWINKLING has 1 sense:

1. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

  Familiarity information: TWINKLING used as a noun is very rare.

• TWINKLING (adjective)
  The adjective TWINKLING has 1 sense:

1. shining intermittently with a sparkling light

  Familiarity information: TWINKLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWINKLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

blink of an eye; flash; heartbeat; instant; jiffy; New York minute; split second; trice; twinkling; wink

Context example:

if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash

Hypernyms ("twinkling" is a kind of...):

bit; minute; mo; moment; second (an indefinitely short time)

• TWINKLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shining intermittently with a sparkling light

Context example:

twinkling stars

Similar:

bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)

 Context examples 

Oh dear, but it was brave to see you! she cried, bursting out a-laughing once more, and standing with her hand pressed to her side, and her half-closed eyes twinkling with amusement.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They both had little bright round twinkling eyes, by the way, which were like birds' eyes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you need to finish up an agreement, do so quickly while the stars are twinkling so brightly for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She paused and regarded Martin with twinkling eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Good-bye, and thank you very much," returned the girl; and the Monkeys rose into the air and were out of sight in a twinkling.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“Give me the key,” said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The Premier looked at Holmes with twinkling eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And, to the dismay of the rest of the club, Jo threw open the door of the closet, and displayed Laurie sitting on a rag bag, flushed and twinkling with suppressed laughter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then, seating himself opposite to me, he looked at me long and fixedly with his strange, twinkling, reckless eyes—eyes of a cold light blue, the color of a glacier lake.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)