blink-eyed
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editblink-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: [...] [R. Robinson for] 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
edit- “blink-eyed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.