twire

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 8
Words With Friends: 8
Letters: 5

Pronunciation

/ˈtwaɪə(ɹ)/

Definition of twire

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

(intransitive)To glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry.

“I saw the wench that twired and twinkled at thee.”
“Which maids will twire at 'tween their fingers.”

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verb

(intransitive)To glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry.

“I saw the wench that twired and twinkled at thee.”
“Which maids will twire at 'tween their fingers.”
(intransitive)To twinkle; sparkle; wink.

“When sparkling stars twire not, thou gild'st the even.”
(transitive)To twist; twirl.

noun

A sly glance; a leer.
A twisted filament; a thread.

“they put the cocons in hot water, and so stirring them about with a kind of rod, the ends of the silk twires of the cocons stick to it”
(obsolete)A pipe through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge; a tuyere.

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Etymology

From Middle English twiren (“to peep out, pry about, twinkle, glance, gleam”), cognate with Middle High German zwieren (“to spy”), Bavarian zwiren, zwieren (“to spy, glance”). Perhaps related to Old English twinclian (“to twinkle”). More at twinkle.