Blinkle

//ˈblɪŋkl̩// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 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, …"

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"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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