winksome

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1. Marked by winking

   Whoopla laughter scuttling after him and a gold tooth winksome, bawdy dogstar in the ordurous jaws of fellatio major.

   2010, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

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   And Naishadha stood revealed by his shadow, his fading garlands, himself stained with dust and sweat, resting on the ground with winksome eyes.

   1884, Mahābhārata - Page 171

   But you are mightily encouraged by a winksome expression which you see, or fancy you see, on your side of Tom's face; [...]

   1900, Henry Lawson, On the track

   [...] the Muse stirs my reluctant pen / To write a verse or two, / I find my topic in a winksome wren / The Muse insists is Prue; [...]

   1917, A. Walter Utting, A Nom De Guerre

   He just wears beautiful suits, and one stoned was a winksome in the stage lights like the glint in the eye of an animated whitetail deer who wandered into the courtyard.

   2008, Darrell Kinsey, Torsino