twink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: twinks
Etymology: From twinkie. More at Twink § Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: examples: text: “Where are the twinks anyway? They usually have the decency to provide one or two decorative twinks… Jesus, who needs to waste a night staring at these tired old Gucci queens.”
ref: 1978, Armistead Maupin, “Full moon in Seacliff”, in Tales of the City, New York: Ballantine, pages 253–254:
text: […]the narrow gay ideal of a slim or waiflike male body, as displayed by the young "twink".
ref: 2006, Dennis D. Waskul, Phillip Vannini, Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body, page 135:
topics: LGBT
synonyms: chicken
antonyms: bear
glosses: A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair.
examples: text: “I thought testosterone would turn me into a man, but it turned me into a twink,” Tom, who is nonbinary, revealed to a cackling West Village audience last week at the Greenwich House Theater in Manhattan.
ref: 2023 December 14, Gina Cherelus, “The Trans Comic Looking for Love ‘at the End of the World’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: poof
word: fag
word: faggot
word: bading
word: big girl's blouse
word: cockney
word: cot-quean
word: cupcake
word: dudelet
word: fakaleiti
word: fairy
word: femboy
word: gentleman
word: ginch
word: girl's blouse
word: girlyman
word: janegirl
word: jessie
word: nancy
word: nancyboy
word: nancy pants
word: pansy
word: Percy
word: poof
word: poofter
word: posy sniffer
word: pretty boy
word: puss-gentleman
word: quiche-eater
word: sissy
word: softling
word: soy boy
word: swish
word: twink
word: zenana
glosses: A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.
examples: text: Bind-on-account was an innovation that allowed players to transfer goods to their own twinks, but not to those of other players.
ref: 2015, Richard A. Bartle, MMOs from the Inside Out, page 154:
text: Characters who were obvious twinks, possessing equipment well beyond their means, were subject to public criticism.
ref: 2016, Timothy Rowlands, Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of EverQuest, page 71:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: A lower-level character in a roleplaying game (MMO) which is artificially overgeared or overpowered, due to being given advanced equipment or resources via a higher-level character controlled by the same player.
examples: text: I certainly don't consider myself a twink; however it seems that anyone who doesn't agree with another's point of view is automatically labelled as such.
ref: 1997, Flower of the Night, “Looking for a mud”, in rec.games.mud.diku (Usenet):
text: You will not find any stock. You will not find any easy mobs. You will not find any +100 dam 'big swords of I win'. You will not find twink mudders. You will not hear about how Jim the Kewl dOOd scored last night at his sister's birthday party. You will not find bots.
ref: 1997, Gov't Cheeze, “[AD/REQUEST] Builders and Players (twinks need not apply)”, in rec.games.mud.admin (Usenet):
topics: games
gaming
glosses: A player in a in a multi-user dungeon (MUD) who engages in abusive min-maxing behaviour and exploits or took advantage of other players for personal gain.
Derived terms: twink death
twinkification
twunk