blink-eyed

English

Etymology

blink +‎ eyed

Adjective

blink-eyed (comparative more blink-eyed, superlative most blink-eyed)

1. Habitually winking.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The Second Part […], 2nd edition, part 2, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Mingled with powdred shot & fethered steele
     So thicke vpon the blink-ei’d Burghers heades

References

• “blink-eyed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.