Blin
name, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Cessation; end. obsolete
- 2 A blintz or blini.
"The cook raised an immense amount of dough for the bliny. […] “Hey, a blin for me!” one would call, holding out an empty plate with a hand dripping with butter and sour cream."
- 3 An ethnic group from Eritrea. plural, plural-only
- 1 To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up. Scotland, Yorkshire, especially, obsolete
"nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...]."
- 1 The Cushitic language spoken by the Blin people.
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More examples"nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...]."
Etymology
From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.
From Russian блин (blin, “pancake, flat object”).
From Blin ብሊና (bəlina), bélina.
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