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Meanings of hinkypunk in English
Atmospheric ghost lights.
Synonyms
Examples for "foxfire"
Examples for "foxfire"
1
Looked like he had a piece of the rainbow on him, or foxfire.
2
A hundred pale lights danced toward us through the trees, faint as foxfire.
3
They were foxfire glow and lightning-bug tail, the lights of the plants themselves.
4
He guesses everything of the kind except lightning-bugs and foxfire.
5
Kitsune often carry round balls alight with kitsune-bi, foxfire.
1
You Christians are chasing a will o' the wisp, a jack o' lantern.
2
Others pursued the will o' the wisp of expansion by adding field to field.
3
Ambition forever beckons, like a will o' the wisp.
4
The will o' the wisp of Russification had already begun to lure the Jewish professional class.
5
The Meadow-Brook Girls are the original will o' the wisps.
1
My will-o'-wisp fate you know: do you recollect a Sunday we spent together in Eglinton woods?
2
She is the Fenella of the fireside; the will-o'-wisp of our souls; our gaiety; the life of the house.
3
Followed stream down to very shoal bay of our big water, which like the will-o'-wisp has led us on.
4
How dark must have been the night in which such a Will-o'-wisp was mistaken for a star!
1
It is only the meteoric light of the ignis fatuus, soon extinguished.
2
The illusion was gone,-theignis fatuus of adventure, the dream of wealth.
3
A light which illuminates centuries must be more than an ignis fatuus.
4
To this had the ignis fatuus of a false love brought her!
5
He leaps over extensive regions of country like an ignis fatuus.
1
It drove away from me like a monstrous jack-o'-lantern driven by the wind.
2
An' dey 'low dey mus' hab a jack-o'-lantern or de fun all sp'iled.
3
His jack-o'-lantern face, Tom saw, was the result of surgery.
4
Ralph glanced up at a floating jack-o'-lantern that seemed to be eyeing his plate.
5
The man was a jack-o'-lantern, a will-o'-the-wisp, a weird, long-legged, long-armed, red-haired illusive phantom.
Usage of hinkypunk in English
1
Gennifer's going to have twin hinkypunks if you aren't wearing a goatee in five minutes.
2
Now imagine hinkypunks instead of people.
3
"Well, look who the Hinkypunk dragged out," a voice called overhead.
4
"What's a hinkypunk?" Ralph asked, trying to keep up.
5
"I'll be a hinkypunk's uncle..."
Translations for hinkypunk
Russian
Spanish
Hinkypunk through the time