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Austronesian (iou) and unwinking (iou)


Austronesian (iou)



Austronesian adjective & noun. E20.
[from German austronesisch, from Latin australis southern + -O- + Greek nesos island: see -IAN.]
(Of or pertaining to) a family of agglutinative Languages spoken widely in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Other parts of SE Asia, and in the islands of the central and southern Pacific.

unwinking (iou)



unwinking adjective. L18.
[from UN-1 + winking pres. pple of WINK verb1.]
(Of a look etc.) marked by absence of winking; (of attention, vigilance, etc.) ceaseless, never relaxing. L18.
Not winking; never closing the eyes. E19.
unwinkingly adverb M19.