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English Dictionary: Twink by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Twink \Twink\, v. i. [OE. twinken. See {Twinkle}.]
      To twinkle. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Twink \Twink\, n.
      1. A wink; a twinkling. [Obs.]
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   twink /twink/ n.   1. [Berkeley] A clue-repellant user; the next
   step beyond a clueless one.   2. [UCSC] A {read-only user}.   Also
   reported on the Usenet group soc.motss; may derive from gay slang
   for a cute young thing with nothing upstairs (compare mainstream
   `chick').
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   twink
  
      /twink/ [UCSC] Equivalent to {read-only user}.   Also reported
      on the {Usenet} group soc.motss; may derive from gay slang for
      a cute young thing with nothing upstairs (compare mainstream
      "chick").
  
  
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