blinkle

present singular third person blinkles · participle present blinkling · participle past blinkled · past blinkled

1. To blink repeatedly

   There came a twinkle into his red eyes, and even his nose blinkled and twinkled, [...]

   1915, Howard Roger Garis, Uncle Wiggily Longears

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   Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of political bombast, …

   1791, Presbyterio-Catholicon

   His eyes perpetually blinkling after the fashion of near-sighted people, and an in convenient deafness, which furnished a good pretext to call for a repetition when he did not choose to hear, and a stammering which admitted of reflection when it was necessary, [...]

   1871, Jean Charles Du Boys, The Countess of Monte-Cristo

   The silence brought John Jay to his senses. He crawled along the aisle and out of the door, blinkling like an owl as he came into the blinding sunshine.

   1897, Annie Fellows Johnston, Ole Mammy's Torment

   On a bench near the wall, Ion Hurdubet and Petrea Nucu were waiting for their wives: Ion's eyelids were blinkling wearily.

   1955, Remus Luca, Ana Nucu

   They didn't wheeze from internal motion nor blinkle from synapses throbbing on impulse power. But they were cold—initially. Diamond veins traced just below a mesh that convinced of suppleness.

   2007, Charlee Jacob, The Indigo People: A Vampire Collection