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Blinky

//ˈblɪŋki// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of eyes or people/animals: blinking repeatedly, prone to blink.

    "She sat stuffed into a small chair and listened with an intense and very blinky sort of concentration."

  2. 2
    flickery, prone to flicker or flash (of lights, shining objects)

    "She struck a match and relighted the candle and everyone looked at each other by its winky, blinky light."

  3. 3
    Of milk: turned somewhat sour. US, dialectal

    "No proper place for cooling milk in summer meant not only blinky milk unfit to drink, but no sweet cream for the cream jug that most of them had, and neither good butter nor buttermilk could come from milk not properly cooled."

Noun
  1. 1
    in digital photography, a flashing pixel.

    "Blinkies visually indicate the areas of a photograph where the exposure is beyond the range of the film."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From blink + -y.

Etymology 2

From blink + -y.

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