Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hood-wink

present participle of hood-wink

simple past tense and past participle of hood-wink

The hint, suggestion etc. can be understood without further explanation.

(simile, colloquial) The idea/proposed action is inconsequential to the current situation.

A screen attached to the bridle of a horse or other domesticated animal preventing it from being able to see things to its side. / Somebody who winks; somebody who connives. / (UK, colloquial) An eye.

A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae. / Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculata and Busycon carica.

Synonym of winkle out (“to acquire or extract with difficulty”)

(UK, Ireland) A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten. / An implement used to extract the flesh of a periwinkle from its shell.

A surname from German.