twenty winks

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A very short sleep.

Pronunciation

En-au-twenty winks.ogg

Word forms

twenty winks

Etymology

Modeled after forty winks, from the humorous notion that if a short nap is forty winks then a very short nap is twenty winks (half that amount).

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