winkered en · ADJ
Etymology
From winker + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Wearing winkers or blinders. (of a horse or other domesticated animal)
They are mounting him for the mule race will be run upon the sands. That’s the playboy on the winkered mule.
1907, John Millington Synge, “The Playboy of the Western World”, in Dublin and London, Maunsel, published 1911, Act III, pp. 93-94: