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blick¹

  • /blɪk/

Rhymes with -ɪk

Where it comes from

Perhaps onomatopoeic; perhaps an error for, or a nonce alteration of, blink or click; perhaps a continuation of Middle English bliken (compare blicker), which may have survived in dialect despite not being attested in print for 500 years.

verb blicks · blicking · blicked

  1. transitive To shine, gleam. Shirley Steynes Bluey took a deep breath as he entered the main street; nothing new under the sun-lamp as white pinks blicked across the street in a line of heat-glazed asterisks
  2. ambitransitive, nonce word To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound. The recorder blicked off, and the tape hissed to the end of the reel in silence.

blick²

  • /blɪk/

Rhymes with -ɪk

Where it comes from

From German Blick (“look, glance, twinkle, flash”), from Middle High German blic, from Old High German blik, blich, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *blikiz (“shine, appearance, look”), related to *blīkaną.

Cognate with Dutch blik, Danish blik, Icelandic blik (“gleam, sheen”), Old English blice (“sheen, denuded site”).

noun blicks

  1. The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process. The nearer the process approaches to the “Blick,” the slower is the formation of litharge, till at last it can only be continued by a very strong fire.

verb blicks · blicking · blicked

  1. intransitive Of gold or silver, to exhibit blick. When the cupellation is nearly finished, a play of colors is seen, and the button [sc. of silver] suddenly brightens or “blicks,” and becomes white, and is free from lead.

blick³

  • /blɪk/

Rhymes with -ɪk

noun blicks

  1. A sawed-off length of something. Witness here described many blicks of wood cut out of trees on this line showing ages of marks.

blick⁴

  • /blɪk/

Rhymes with -ɪk

Where it comes from

Probably from replacing the initial letter C of click with the letter B in Blood slang.

noun blicks

  1. Multicultural London English, slang A pistol. Fix up, look sharp. Don't make me get the blicks out, get dark.

    Similar: blicky

verb blicks · blicking · blicked

  1. Multicultural London English, slang, transitive To shoot up (fire bullets at). Thinkin' like Roddy, got a stick in the box (Roddy) / Hide in another car, we just blickin' the opps (Bah)

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@misc{blick_2026,
  title = {blick},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blick},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}