blinking

blinking
    adj 1: closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly; "he stood
           blinking in the bright sunlight" [syn: {blinking},
           {winking}]
    2: informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance";
       "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" [syn:
       {bally(a)}, {blinking(a)}, {bloody(a)}, {blooming(a)},
       {crashing(a)}, {flaming(a)}, {fucking(a)}]
    n 1: a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly [syn:
         {blink}, {eye blink}, {blinking}, {wink}, {winking},
         {nictitation}, {nictation}]
    

Blink \Blink\ (bl[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blinked}
   (bl[i^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blinking}.] [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.
   bl[imac]can to shine, E. bleak. [root]98. See {Bleak}; cf.
   1st {Blench}.]
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   1. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
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            One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. --Pope
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   2. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with
      frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
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            Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.
                                                  --Shak.
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   3. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to
      flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
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            The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.
                                                  --Wordsworth.
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            The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   4. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
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90 Moby Thesaurus words for "blinking":
      absolute, aflicker, asquint, astigmatic, bickering, blasted,
      bleeding, blink, blink-eyed, blinkard, blinky, blooming, complete,
      coruscant, coruscating, coruscation, cursed, cussed, damnable,
      dancing, downright, execrable, farsighted, firefly, flashing,
      flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fluttering the eyelids,
      fluttery, glimmer, glimmering, glimmerous, glimmery, glisten,
      glistening, glister, glistering, glitter, glittering, glittery,
      glowworm, infernal, lambent, longsighted, mope-eyed, myopic,
      nearsighted, nictitation, out-and-out, outright, perfect, playing,
      poor-sighted, presbyopic, quivering, quivery, scintilla,
      scintillant, scintillating, scintillation, scintillescent, shimmer,
      shimmering, shimmery, shortsighted, spangle, spangly, spark,
      sparkle, sparkling, squinch-eyed, squint-eyed, squinting, squinty,
      strabismal, strabismic, stroboscopic, stroboscopic light, tinsel,
      tinselly, twinkle, twinkling, twinkly, unmitigated, wavering,
      wavery, winker, winking