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blinkerdom

noun

Etymology

From blinker + -dom.

  1. inherited from *blinkaną✻
  2. inherited from *blincan✻
  3. inherited from blynken
  4. suffixed as blinker — “blink + er”
  5. suffixed as blinkerdom — “blinker + dom”

Definitions

  1. Narrow-mindedness

    Narrow-mindedness; hostility to non-traditional ideas; inability to see beyond the obvious, usual or familiar.

    • in place of someone objective to blend the impressions of the ear with those of the eye, one has the domination of the musician, the professional expert, with the inevitable blinkerdom that specialisation brings.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blinkerdom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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