blench
/blɛnt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.59 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Blench not at thy chosen lot."
- "This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfilment."
- "Suddenly the great beast beat its hideous wings. […] Again it leaped into the air, and then swiftly fell down upon Éowyn, shrieking, striking with beak and claw. Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings […]"
- "Even a case-hardened monorailist must blench at the thought of the storm such a proposition would create."
- ""This," said Dunraven with a vast gesture that did not blench at the cloudy stars, and that took in the black moors, the sea, and a majestic, tumbledown edifice that looked like a stable fallen upon hard times, "is my ancestral land.""
- "Yesterday the government proclaimed no turning back, but the lords representing the likes of the disability charity Scope or Macmillan Cancer Support should make them blench."
Etymology
From Middle English blench (noun) and blenchen (verb), from Old English blenċan (“to deceive, cheat”), from Proto-West Germanic *blankijan, from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-. Cognate with Icelandic blekkja (“to deceive, cheat, impose upon”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: blench, blenċan, *blankijan, *blankijaną, *bʰleyǵ-, blanchen