blinkle

To blink repeatedly

Verb

  1. To blink repeatedly
    • Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of...
    • His eyes perpetually blinkling after the fashion of near-sighted people, and an in convenient deafness, which furnished a good pretext to call for a repetition when he did not choose to hear, and a stammering which...
    • The silence brought John Jay to his senses. He crawled along the aisle and out of the door, blinkling like an owl as he came into the blinding sunshine. - 1897, Annie Fellows Johnston, Ole Mammy's Torment:

Origin

From blink + -le (frequentative suffix).

Forms

blinkles blinkling blinkled