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blink beer |
blink of an eye |
blink-eyed |
blinkard |
blinker |
blinking
| blinking chickweed
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blinking
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun blinking has 1 sense
- blinking(n = noun.act) blink, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking - a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly; Array is a kind of inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex
has particulars: palpebration
Derived form verb blink1
Adjective blinking has 2 senses
- blinking(s = adj.all) winking - closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly; "he stood blinking in the bright sunlight"
- blinking(s = adj.all) bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking - informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
blinking, adj. & adv. Brit. sl. an intensive, esp. expressing disapproval (a blinking idiot; a blinking awful time).
Etymology
BLINK + -ING(2) (euphem. for BLOODY)
THESAURUS
blinking
absolute, aflicker, asquint, astigmatic, bickering, blasted, bleeding, blink, blink-eyed, blinkard, blinky, blooming, complete, coruscant, coruscating, coruscation, cursed, cussed, damnable, dancing, downright, execrable, farsighted, firefly, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fluttering the eyelids, fluttery, glimmer, glimmering, glimmerous, glimmery, glisten, glistening, glister, glistering, glitter, glittering, glittery, glowworm, infernal, lambent, longsighted, mope-eyed, myopic, nearsighted, nictitation, out-and-out, outright, perfect, playing, poor-sighted, presbyopic, quivering, quivery, scintilla, scintillant, scintillating, scintillation, scintillescent, shimmer, shimmering, shimmery, shortsighted, spangle, spangly, spark, sparkle, sparkling, squinch-eyed, squint-eyed, squinting, squinty, strabismal, strabismic, stroboscopic, stroboscopic light, tinsel, tinselly, twinkle, twinkling, twinkly, unmitigated, wavering, wavery, winker, winking
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