blink-eyed

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English

Etymology

From blink +‎ eyed.

Adjective

blink-eyed (comparative more blink-eyed, superlative most blink-eyed)

Habitually winking.
- c. 1587–1588, , Tamburlaine the Great. The Second Part , 2nd edition, part 2, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
  Mingled with powdred shot & fethered steele
  So thicke vpon the blink-ei’d Burghers heades

References

“blink-eyed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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