blenk

English

Verb

blenk (third-person singular simple present blenks, present participle blenking, simple past and past participle blenked)

1. (obsolete) To blink.
2. (obsolete) To shine.
3. (obsolete) To look.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “blenk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• blend (most of Moselle Franconian, southern Ripuarian, now also predominant in central and eastern Ripuarian)
• blond, blönd (Eifel)

Etymology

From Old High German blind, northern variant of blint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bleŋk/

Adjective

blenk (masculine blenge, feminine and plural bleng, comparative blenger, superlative et blenkste)

1. (Ripuarian, now chiefly western dialects) blind, unable to see

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

blenk

1. imperative of blenkja