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ablink en · ADJ

Etymology

From a- + blink.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Blinking; filled or covered (with things that are blinking).
    • The fog lifted quite suddenly toward the evening—and there were those lean hulls, ablink with mail and spears […] 1973, Poul Anderson, chapter 3, in Hrolf Kraki’s Saga, New York: Ballantine Books, page 49:
    • […] out through that doorway came a long, low, yellow-and-brown beast, with eyes a-blink at the waning daylight […] 1912, Saki, “Sredni Vashtar”, in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, pages 100–101:
    • Emergency flashers ablink, I drove alongside the long queue to the gas pumps. 1999, Burt Kearns, chapter 7, in Tabloid Baby, Nashville: Celebrity Books, page 94: