blinkard
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A person who blinks or sees imperfectly; one who squints.
- noun That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star which appears and disappears.
- noun One who lacks intellectual perception.
- noun One who wilfully shuts his eyes to what is happening; one who blinks facts.
Examples
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But the Don would not be pacified; and walked out, calling himself an ass and a blinkard for having demeaned himself to such a company, forgetting that he had brought it on himself.
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When the sun shone clear the water on beyond became a shimmering blazing shield of white-hot metal; and an hour of uninterrupted gazing upon it would have turned an argus into a blinkard.
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Nay what are all errors and perversities of his, even those stealings of ribbons aimless confused miseries and vagabondisms, if we will interpret them kindly, but the blinkard dazzlements and staggerings to and fro of a man sent on an errand he is too weak for, by a path he cannot yet find?
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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With rich munificence, as we often say, in a most blinkard, bespectacled, logic-chopping generation, Nature has gifted this man with an eye.
Note
The word 'blinkard' comes from 'blink' and the suffix '-ard'.
