Blinkle
//ˈblɪŋkl̩// verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To blink repeatedly
"Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of political bombast, …"
Example
More examples"Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of political bombast, …"
Etymology
From blink + -le (frequentative suffix).
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