wink

n 1: a very short time; "if I had the chance I'd do it in a

flash" [syn: {blink of an eye}, {flash}, {instant}, {jiffy},

{split second}, {trice}, {twinkling}, {New York minute}]

2: closing one eye quickly as a signal

v 1: signal by winking; "She winked at him"

2: gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"

[syn: {flash}, {blink}, {twinkle}, {winkle}]

3: briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to

blink" [syn: {blink}, {nictitate}, {nictate}]

4: force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears" [syn: {blink},

{blink away}]

dink

/dink/ Said of a machine that has the {bitty box} nature; a

machine too small to be worth bothering with - sometimes the

system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from

an {MIT} hacker working on a {CP/M} system with 64K, in

reference to any {6502} system, then from fans of 32 bit

architectures about 16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work

on that dink machine." Probably derived from mainstream

"dinky", which isn't sufficiently pejorative.

See {macdink}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-10-31)