blinked
simple past tense and past participle of blink
blinked (not comparable)
Affected with blinking.
Source: Wiktionary
Blink, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blinked; p. pr. & vb. n. Blinking.] Etym: [OE. blenken; akin to dan. blinke, Sw. blinka, G. blinken to shine, glance, wink, twinkle, D. blinken to shine; and prob. to D. blikken to glance, twinkle, G. blicken to look, glance, AS. blican to shine, E. bleak. sq. root98. See Bleak; cf. 1st Blench.]
1. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope
2. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes. Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne. Shak.
3. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. Wordsworth. The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . Sir W. Scott.
4. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
Blink, v. t.
1. To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
2. To trick; to deceive. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Blink, n. Etym: [OE. blink. See Blink, v. i. ]
1. A glimpse or glance. This is the first blink that ever I had of him. Bp. Hall.
2. Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. Sir W. Scott. Not a blink of light was there. Wordsworth.
3. (Naut.)
Definition: The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
4. pl. Etym: [Cf. Blencher.] (Sporting)
Definition: Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 May 2025
(noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines); “the road was closed to vehicular traffic with bollards”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.