blunk

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Apparently a corruption of blenk and/or blink.

Verb

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blunk (third-person singular simple present blunks, present participle blunking, simple past and past participle blunked)

  1. (intransitive) To blench, blink; turn aside.
  2. (transitive, Scotland) To spoil, mismanage.
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Etymology 2

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Ablaut of blink.

Verb

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blunk

  1. (dialect, colloquial, informal or humorous) simple past of blink
    • 2001, Turanga Leela, Futurama episode "The Cyber House Rules"
      I did it! I blunk!
    • 2021, Rebecca Curtis , The New Yorker, vol. 97 no. 20, "Satellites"
      Tony blunk.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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blunk

  1. imperative of blunke