blin
/blɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.87 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An ethnic group from Eritrea.
Example Sentences
- "nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...]."
- "One while the little foot page went, / And another while he ran; / Until he came to his journey's end / The little foot page never blan."
- "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."
- "Thus blinned their boast, as we well ken"
- "The cook raised an immense amount of dough for the bliny. […] “Hey, a blin for me!” one would call, holding out an empty plate with a hand dripping with butter and sour cream."
- "Have a deep round buttered dish by the side of the stove and put each blin into this dish as it is ready; butter the blin, and place the next blin on top. When all the bliny are cooked, cover the dish with a cloth; it is not essential to serve them immediately."
Etymology
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”). See also lin.
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byn
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byn
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