Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To blench; blink; turn aside.
  • To spoil; mismanage.
  • noun In plural, linen or cotton cloths for printing; calicos.

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  • verb dialect, colloquial, informal Simple past of blink.

Etymologies

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Ablaut of blink

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  • (noun) - Blunk of weather, a fit of squally, tempestuous weather. --William Marshall's Provincialisms of East Norfolk, 1787

    April 22, 2018