blin
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪn
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”), equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”).
Verb[edit]
blin (third-person singular simple present blins, present participle blinning, simple past blinned or blan, past participle blinned or blun)
- (obsolete) To cease from.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- (archaic or dialectal) To stop, desist; to cease to move, run, flow, etc., let up.
- 1880, Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall:
- A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin ; it may rain all day, and never blin ; the train ran 100 miles, and never blinned.
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1908, John Masefield, A sailor's garland:
- Thus blinned their boast, as we well ken
- 1880, Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall:
Noun[edit]
blin
Etymology 2[edit]
From Russian блин (blin, “pancake, flat object”).
Noun[edit]
blin
- A blintz.
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