blinky
/ˈblɪŋki/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.27 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
in digital photography, a flashing pixel.
Example Sentences
- "She sat stuffed into a small chair and listened with an intense and very blinky sort of concentration."
- "The door of the cabin creaked. Smith's blinky eye peeped out to see if he had dreamed us."
- "He was a literature professor, neurotic and blinky behind his glasses […]"
- "She struck a match and relighted the candle and everyone looked at each other by its winky, blinky light."
- "[…] the rosary beads that hung from her belt like a zoot-suiter's key chain were blinky bright […]"
- "No proper place for cooling milk in summer meant not only blinky milk unfit to drink, but no sweet cream for the cream jug that most of them had, and neither good butter nor buttermilk could come from milk not properly cooled."
Etymology
From blink + -y.
Word Breakdown
Usage
- American usage