blinkle
/ˈblɪŋkl̩/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To blink repeatedly
Example Sentences
- "Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of political bombast, …"
- "His eyes perpetually blinkling after the fashion of near-sighted people, and an in convenient deafness, which furnished a good pretext to call for a repetition when he did not choose to hear, and a stammering which admitted of reflection when it was necessary, [...]"
- "The silence brought John Jay to his senses. He crawled along the aisle and out of the door, blinkling like an owl as he came into the blinding sunshine."
- "There came a twinkle into his red eyes, and even his nose blinkled and twinkled, [...]"
- "On a bench near the wall, Ion Hurdubet and Petrea Nucu were waiting for their wives: Ion's eyelids were blinkling wearily."
- "They didn't wheeze from internal motion nor blinkle from synapses throbbing on impulse power. But they were cold—initially. Diamond veins traced just below a mesh that convinced of suppleness."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
blinkles (present, singular)
blinkling (participle, present)
blinkled (participle, past)
blinkled (past)