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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, [Christopher Marlowe], 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
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