blinky
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blinky
- /ˈblɪŋki/
Sounds like blinkie · Rhymes with -ɪŋki
Where it comes from
From blink + -y.
adjective more blinky · most blinky
- Of eyes or people/animals: blinking repeatedly, prone to blink. She sat stuffed into a small chair and listened with an intense and very blinky sort of concentration.
- flickery, prone to flicker or flash (of lights, shining objects) She struck a match and relighted the candle and everyone looked at each other by its winky, blinky light.
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Of milk: turned somewhat sour.
No proper place for cooling milk in summer meant not only blinky milk unfit to drink, but no sweet cream for the cream jug that most of them had, and neither good butter nor buttermilk could come from milk not properly cooled.
Similar: off
noun blinkies
- in digital photography, a flashing pixel. Blinkies visually indicate the areas of a photograph where the exposure is beyond the range of the film.
Talk about this word "blinky." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/blinky. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. blinky. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/blinky "blinky." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/blinky.Cite this
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