blinder

English

Etymology

From blind +‎ -er (agent suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈblaɪndə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈblaɪndɚ/

Adjective

blinder

1. comparative form of blind: more blind
   • 1830, William Pashley, The Voice of Reason in Defence of the Christian Faith

     Ye who arrogate to yourselves that ye see more, or at least are not so blind as others; in your unbelieving conduct, allow me to say, ye are blinder than others; ye are even blinder than the most ignorant and illiterate.

Noun

blinder (plural blinders)

1. Something that blinds.
   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 15, [1]

     As it was, innocence was his blinder.

2. A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
3. A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
   • 1969, Kenzaburō Ōe, A Personal Matter, translated by John Nathan, New York: Grove Press, Chapter 5, p. 84,

     From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.

   • 1978 Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vinatage, 2003, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 207,

     Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders.

4. (Britain, slang) An exceptional performance.

   He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.

   • 1992, Glyn Maxwell, "Out of the Rain" in Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990 to 1995, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, p. 91,

     And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out

5. (slang) A bout of heavy drinking, a bender.
   • 1985, John Maxton, Hansard, 2 May, 1985, [2]

     If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man.

Synonyms

• (horse's blindfold): blinker, winkers
• (exceptional performance): cracker

Translations

horse's eye shield

• French: œillère (fr) f

Verb

blinder (third-person singular simple present blinders, present participle blindering, simple past and past participle blindered)

1. To fit (a horse) with blinders; to obstruct the vision of.
   • 1958, Sylvia Plath, "Above the Oxbow" in The Collected Poems, New York: Harper & Row, p. 88,

     […] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky

   • 1986, Tessa Albert Warschaw, Rich is Better: How Women Can Bridge the Gap Between Wanting and Having It All — Financially, Emotionally, Professionally, Penguin, p. 248,

     They think they're being focussed when they're really just blindering their eyes, as a farmer would a plough horse, to ways of getting to their goal faster.

Anagrams

• Brindle, brindle

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French

Etymology

From blinde +‎ -er.

Verb

blinder

1. to armor; to reinforce

Conjugation

  Conjugation of blinder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		blinder			avoir blindé
gerund		en blindant			en ayant blindé
present participle		blindant /blɛ̃.dɑ̃/
past participle		blindé /blɛ̃.de/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	blinde /blɛ̃d/	blindes /blɛ̃d/	blinde /blɛ̃d/	blindons /blɛ̃.dɔ̃/	blindez /blɛ̃.de/	blindent /blɛ̃d/
	imperfect	blindais /blɛ̃.dɛ/	blindais /blɛ̃.dɛ/	blindait /blɛ̃.dɛ/	blindions /blɛ̃.djɔ̃/	blindiez /blɛ̃.dje/	blindaient /blɛ̃.dɛ/
	past historic1	blindai /blɛ̃.de/	blindas /blɛ̃.da/	blinda /blɛ̃.da/	blindâmes /blɛ̃.dam/	blindâtes /blɛ̃.dat/	blindèrent /blɛ̃.dɛʁ/
	future	blinderai /blɛ̃.dʁe/	blinderas /blɛ̃.dʁa/	blindera /blɛ̃.dʁa/	blinderons /blɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	blinderez /blɛ̃.dʁe/	blinderont /blɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	blinderais /blɛ̃.dʁɛ/	blinderais /blɛ̃.dʁɛ/	blinderait /blɛ̃.dʁɛ/	blinderions /blɛ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/	blinderiez /blɛ̃.də.ʁje/	blinderaient /blɛ̃.dʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	blinde /blɛ̃d/	blindes /blɛ̃d/	blinde /blɛ̃d/	blindions /blɛ̃.djɔ̃/	blindiez /blɛ̃.dje/	blindent /blɛ̃d/
	imperfect1	blindasse /blɛ̃.das/	blindasses /blɛ̃.das/	blindât /blɛ̃.da/	blindassions /blɛ̃.da.sjɔ̃/	blindassiez /blɛ̃.da.sje/	blindassent /blɛ̃.das/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	blinde /blɛ̃d/	—	blindons /blɛ̃.dɔ̃/	blindez /blɛ̃.de/	—
1literary tenses

Derived terms

• blindage

Further reading

• “blinder” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɪndɐ/

Adjective

blinder

1. comparative degree of blind

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Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse blinder, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

Adjective

blinder

1. blind
2. invisible, obscure

Declension

Declension of blinder (strong)

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	blinder	blind	blint
accusative	blindan	blinda	blint
dative	blindum, -om	blindri, -re	blindu, -o
genitive	blinds	blindrar	blinds
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	blindir, -e(r)	blindar	blind
accusative	blinda	blindar	blind
dative	blindum, -om	blindum, -om	blindum, -om
genitive	blindra	blindra	blindra

Declension of blinder (weak)

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	blindi, -e	blinda	blinda
accusative	blinda	blindu, -o	blinda
dative	blinda	blindu, -o	blinda
genitive	blinda	blindu, -o	blinda
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	blindu, -o	blindu, -o	blindu, -o
accusative	blindu, -o	blindu, -o	blindu, -o
dative	blindu, -o	blindu, -o	blindu, -o
genitive	blindu, -o	blindu, -o	blindu, -o

Descendants

• Swedish: blind