blink
English
/blɪŋk/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
- To flash on and off at regular intervals.
- (hyperbole) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
- (transitive) To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
- (Scotland) To trick; to deceive.
- To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
- (scifi) To teleport, mostly for short distances.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English blynken inherited from Old English *blincan inherited from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*blinkaną
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- blench English
- blencher English
- blink-eyed English
- blinker English
- blinkerdom English
- blinkest English
- blinketh English
- blinkie English
- blinkle English
- blinkless English
- blinklessness English
- blinky English
- eye English
- eyeblink English
- eyed English
- ice English
- iceblink English
- interblink English
- land English
- landblink English
- moon English
- moonblink English
- nanoblinker English
- snow English
- snowblink English
- sun English
- sunblink English
- blinken German
- blinken Dutch, Flemish
- uitblinken Dutch, Flemish
- verblinken Dutch, Flemish
- blinke Norwegian Bokmål
- *blinkaną Proto-Germanic
- *blincan Old English
- blenchen Middle English
- blynken Middle English
- blinke Danish
- blinken Middle Dutch
- blyîntchi Norman
- blénken Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *blinkan Old Dutch
- blinken Middle Low German
- blinka Maltese
- blinka Old Frisian