Etymology

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Today it means: A canister or dinner pail usually of tin. Full definition →

Dutch blikje
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  1. Dutch · borrowed fromblikje
  2. English todayblickey

From Dutch blikje, diminutive of blik (“can; tinplate”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.