v. nonce-wd. [f. FLATTER v.1 + BLIND v.] trans. To flatter so as to make blind; to blind with flattery.
1818. Coleridge, Let., in Lit. Rem. (1836), II. 1. My next Friday’s lecture will, if I do not grossly flatter-blind myself, be interesting, and the points of view not only original, but new to the audience.
