Blickey

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A canister or dinner pail usually of tin. New-Jersey, New-York, Pennsylvania, dated, dialectal

Etymology

From Dutch blikje, diminutive of blik (“can; tinplate”).

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dinner pail

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