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blenk

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English

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Verb

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blenk (third-person singular simple present blenks, present participle blenking, simple past and past participle blenked)

  1. (obsolete) To blink.
  2. (obsolete) To shine.
  3. (obsolete) To look.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for blenk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Central Franconian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old High German blind, northern variant of blint.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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blenk (masculine blenge, feminine and plural bleng, comparative blenger, superlative et blenkste)

  1. (Ripuarian, now chiefly western dialects) blind, unable to see

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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blenk

  1. imperative of blenkja