TWINKLY

beamish, smiling, twinkly

(adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism; “Come to my arms, my beamish boy!”- Lewis Carroll; “a room of smiling faces”; “a round red twinkly Santa Claus”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

twinkly (comparative twinklier, superlative twinkliest)

that twinkles

Source: Wiktionary



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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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