Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who blinks or sees imperfectly; one who squints.
- noun That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star which appears and disappears.
- noun One who lacks intellectual perception.
- noun One who wilfully shuts his eyes to what is happening; one who blinks facts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes.
- noun That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One with bad
eyes . - noun A
dim-witted orstupid person; anidiot .
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Examples
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But the Don would not be pacified; and walked out, calling himself an ass and a blinkard for having demeaned himself to such a company, forgetting that he had brought it on himself.
Westward Ho! 2007
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When the sun shone clear the water on beyond became a shimmering blazing shield of white-hot metal; and an hour of uninterrupted gazing upon it would have turned an argus into a blinkard.
From Place to Place 1910
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But the Don would not be pacified; and walked out, calling himself an ass and a blinkard for having demeaned himself to such a company, forgetting that he had brought it on himself.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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Or was there something of intended satire; is the Professor and Seer not quite the blinkard he affects to be?
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Nay what are all errors and perversities of his, even those stealings of ribbons aimless confused miseries and vagabondisms, if we will interpret them kindly, but the blinkard dazzlements and staggerings to and fro of a man sent on an errand he is too weak for, by a path he cannot yet find?
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The pity that proves so possible and plentiful without that basis, is mere _ignavia_ and cowardly effeminacy; maudlin laxity of heart, grounded on blinkard dimness of head -- contemptible as a drunkard's tears.
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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With rich munificence, as we often say, in a most blinkard, bespectacled, logic-chopping generation, Nature has gifted this man with an eye.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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But the grand, and indeed substantially primary and generic aspect of the Consummation of Terror remains still to be looked at; nay blinkard
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Blame the people who run the Union, the Union student presidents during that time and the blinkard Union alums who helped ram this through.
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stop the city, let me out. this is blinkard philistine pig ignorance.
Archive 2005-03-01 Charles Statman 2005
jaime_d commented on the word blinkard
mean term for someone with bad eyesight OR used figuratively for one who lacks intellectual perception
from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"
January 11, 2009