Also 7 blinck. [Cf. BLINKED.]
1. Of the eyes: Habitually blinking. Hence blink-eyed a.
1823. Thacher, Jrnl. Amer. Rev., 320. It was the doctor’s misfortune to have one blink eye.
c. 1590. Marlowe, 2nd Pt. Tamburl., I. i. The blink-ey’d burghers heads.
a. 1695. Wood, Life (1848), 220. A blinkeyed bookseller in Cheapside.
1695. Lond. Gaz., No. 3041/4. Blink Ey’d, high Nos’d.
2. Of milk, etc.: Slightly sour. Cf. BLINK v. 7.
1883. C. F. Smith, Southernisms, in Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc., 45. Blink milk, ‘milk somewhat soured.’ West Virginia.
