The word "winking" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a gesture in which one briefly closes one eye as a way of communication or conveying emotion. Example sentence: She greeted him with a warm smile and a friendly wink.
After much winking from her bewigged husband, she located the offending item, and in a fit of rage threw it into the audience; it nearly took somebody's eye out.
Conservative pundit Sarah Palin made a cute, sporting little cameo on Saturday Night Live's 40th anniversary show this weekend – winking at her own disastrous 2008 vice-presidential run, which was memorably skewered at the time by SNL's Tina Fey.
"Knowing our family, you might not need it for a while, but it's always good to be prepared," she said, winking as I closed the door.
The LEDs of the spaceship dashboard winking.
Many Iraqi politicians want to improve their government's human-rights reputation by ousting the interior minister, Bayan Jaber, a SCIRI man widely accused of winking an eye at Shia death squads targeting prominent Sunnis.
Its twinkling is significant because it could provide clues about the mechanism of planetary formation around young stars.The astronomers, led by Catrina Hamilton and William Herbst of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, have been monitoring KH 15D's brightness since the late 1990s, when they first noticed that it was "winking".
However, as the past few weeks have shown, winking at secular despots, as they tighten the screws on their disgruntled people, may in the long run be riskier.Tunisia's upheaval has only just begun.
Cynics would say they misread their community's tolerance for winking at Protestant violence.
He arrests them and offers them a deal: if they reel in some corrupt politicians, then he'll let them go free.The story is inspired by the FBI's Abscam sting operation, as acknowledged by a winking caption, "Some of this actually happened".
Stills were extravagantly camouflaged, even as cemetery plots: old pictures show these plots uncovered, with neat rows of glass flagons winking in the light.
Soviet leaders who came later, whether Nikita Khrushchev or Leonid Brezhnev, had their own personality cults, though theirs were built not to secure power but to cement what had already been given to them.Mr Putin's personality cult is slicker than its Soviet antecedents, with higher production values and a winking touch of the postmodern.
