Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person who blinks or sees imperfectly; one who squints.
- n. That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star which appears and disappears.
- n. One who lacks intellectual perception.
- n. One who wilfully shuts his eyes to what is happening; one who blinks facts.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete One with bad eyes.
- n. A dim-witted or stupid person; an idiot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes.
- n. That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears.
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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
“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
“With rich munificence, as we often say, in a most blinkard, bespectacled, logic-chopping generation, Nature has gifted this man with an eye.”
“But the grand, and indeed substantially primary and generic aspect of the Consummation of Terror remains still to be looked at; nay blinkard”
“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.”
“Blame the people who run the Union, the Union student presidents during that time and the blinkard Union alums who helped ram this through.”
“stop the city, let me out. this is blinkard philistine pig ignorance.”
“‘wizard’, may be taken as surviving specimens; ‘blinkard’ (_Homilies_),”
Lists
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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'ard enough
The derogatory suffix -ard, now used in just a few words though previously very productive.
bastard, coward, shittard, squittard, cackard, snivelard, dullard, sluggard, niggard, dizzard, blaggard, drunkard and 21 more...
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building a bigger palette
heretofore unknowns that extend one's ability to describe experience
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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interest
officine, vorhand, pungent, maledictions, puttee, surd, sauntering, mirth, throngs, exuberant, ebullient, samovar and 11 more...
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jaime_d mean term for someone with bad eyesight OR used figuratively for one who lacks intellectual perception
from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" Jan 11, 2009