#palpebrate

[lofihipbot]

lofi hip hop beats to palpebrate to

[wooingwithwords]

palpebrate

palpebrate v. to wink

“So, Lotty and I were at a party and she was wearing this pulchritudinous little black dress; she looked like she’d been forged by Gods in the dew-soaked morning of the world. I caught her peridot eyes across the room and she palpebrated at me. I tell you, my heart pulverized my chest and I dissolved in a pool of gloop.”

[wooingwithwords]

palpebrate

palpebrate v. to wink

“So, Lotty and I were at a party and she was wearing this pulchritudinous little black dress; she looked like she’d been forged by Gods in the dew-soaked morning of the world. I caught her deep-green eyes across the room and she palpebrated at me. I tell you, my heart pulverized my chest and I dissolved in a pool of gloop.”

[thegirlwiththeblog123]

So I was looking up words that have become obsolete and well this came up.... Palpebrate: to wink (or to have eyelids) Some words are just ridiculous.

[other-wordly]

do you know another word for blink? like as if you were breaking out of a daze.

"Don't blink! Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink."

...But if you really wanted to, you could also nictate or nictitate. Or I guess you could palpebrate. None of which are particularly sexy, so let's pretend like I'm taking a day off from my role as Professional Sexy Word Hunter*.

If you wanted something from another language, you could try Kannada (a language spoken in India), which has mitakisu, which bears the slightly more interesting definition of "to blink, to twinkle, to beckon with the eye; to look at inquisitively with the eyes half shut".

* WHICH BY THE WAY means "I'm a hunter of sexy words", not "I am a word hunter and also sexy". of course I realize that it could be read both ways after I post it

[musingsofalibertine]

Word of the Day 24/06/2012 - palpebrate

palpebrate v. to wink

"So, Lotty and I were at a party and she was wearing this pulchritudinous little black dress; she looked like she'd been forged by Gods in the dew-soaked morning of the world. I caught her deep-green eye across the room and she palpebrated at me. I tell you, I had to drag her off to the bathroom as I was instantly tumescent."