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ablink

adj

Etymology

From a- + blink.

  1. inherited from *blinkaną✻
  2. inherited from *blincan✻
  3. inherited from blynken
  4. prefixed as ablink — “a + blink”

Definitions

  1. Blinking

    Blinking; filled or covered (with things that are blinking).

    • […] out through that doorway came a long, low, yellow-and-brown beast, with eyes a-blink at the waning daylight […]
    • The fog lifted quite suddenly toward the evening—and there were those lean hulls, ablink with mail and spears […]
    • Emergency flashers ablink, I drove alongside the long queue to the gas pumps.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA