Also 7 winkapipe, wincopipe. [f. WINK v.1 + PEEP sb.]

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  † 1.  pl. The eyes. Obs.

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  Cf. Devon dial. wink-a-peeps ‘drowsiness.’

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1615.  Brathwait, Strappado, 4. Those wink-apipes of thine, those ferret eies. Ibid., 116. Awake for shame, open thy wink-a-peeps!

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  2.  dial. The pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis.

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1626.  Bacon, Sylva, § 827. There is a Small Red Flower in the Stubble-Fields, which Country People call the Wincopipe.

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1886.  Cheshire Gloss.

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1897.  T. Philip Terry, in Outing (U.S.), XXIX. March, 593/1. The wincopipes are opening, señor.

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