Meanings
- humorousnonstandardparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of blind
Dizzy Dean (1910–1974), quoted by Steven Pinker, in The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, W. Morrow and Company, New York (1994), p. 140. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it!
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Of earlier days, I think, he thought Ere Hymen's bonds had bound— Before his links were firmly lought— When he by blond was blound.
1912 October 2, George B. Morewood, “A Victim of Irregularity”, in Puck, volume 72, number 1857The boy was thrould, as he pept through eyes that once had been blound by an explosion.
1969, Jay Cline, Voices in Literature, Language, and Composition, book 1, p. 109Synonyms: blinded
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Origin
Irregularization of blind, by analogy with bind/bound.
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