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blinkle en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈblɪŋkl̩/

Etymology

From blink + -le (frequentative suffix).

Meanings

1. To blink repeatedly
   • Because when her eyes twinkle and blinkle with excitement, her wrinkles crinkle up into a smile. 2008, Lori Z. Scott, Meghan Rose All Dressed Up:
   • They didn't wheeze from internal motion nor blinkle from synapses throbbing on impulse power. But they were cold—initially. Diamond veins traced just below a mesh that convinced of suppleness. 2007, Charlee Jacob, The Indigo People: A Vampire Collection:
   • The two women on horseback passed by directly in front of Alan, and for a moment he could have sworn that the Lady Elizabeth looked directly into his eyes. He blinkled, utterly dazzled. Her eyes were a brilliant green. 2009, Joan Wolf, The Poisoned Serpent:
   • 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, … 1791, Presbyterio-Catholicon
   • His eyes perpetually blinkling after the fashion of near-sighted people, and an in convenient deafness, which furnished a good pretext to call for a repetition when he did not choose to hear, and a stammering which admitted of reflection when it was necessary, [...] 1871, Jean Charles Du Boys, The Countess of Monte-Cristo:
   • The silence brought John Jay to his senses. He crawled along the aisle and out of the door, blinkling like an owl as he came into the blinding sunshine. 1897, Annie Fellows Johnston, Ole Mammy's Torment:
   • On a bench near the wall, Ion Hurdubet and Petrea Nucu were waiting for their wives: Ion's eyelids were blinkling wearily. 1955, Remus Luca, Ana Nucu:
   • There came a twinkle into his red eyes, and even his nose blinkled and twinkled, [...] 1915, Howard Roger Garis, Uncle Wiggily Longears:

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