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eyeblink

noun

Etymology

From eye + blink. Cognate with Afrikaans oomblik, Dutch ogenblik, German Augenblick, German Low German Ogenblick.

  1. inherited from *blinkaną✻
  2. inherited from *blincan✻
  3. inherited from blynken
  4. compounded as eyeblink — “eye + blink”

Definitions

  1. An act of blinking one's eyelids one time.

  2. A moment (a very short period of time).

The neighborhood

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