blound
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Irregularization of blind, by analogy with bind/bound.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
blound
- (nonstandard, humorous) simple past and past participle of blind
- 1912 October 2, George B. Morewood, “A Victim of Irregularity”, in Puck, volume 72, number 1857:
- Of earlier days, I think, he thought
Ere Hymen's bonds had bound—
Before his links were firmly lought—
When he by blond was blound.
- Dizzy Dean (1910–1974), quoted by Steven Pinker, in The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, W. Morrow and Company, New York (1994), p. 140.
- The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it!
- 1969, Jay Cline, Voices in Literature, Language, and Composition, book 1, p. 109:
- The boy was thrould, as he pept through eyes that once had been blound by an explosion.