blin
/blɪn/
blin verb: to cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
Verb
blin (third-person singular simple present blins, present participle blinning, simple past blinned or blan, past participle blinned or blan or blun)
- To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
- nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- One while the little foot page went, / And another while he ran; / Until he came to his journey's end / The little foot page never blan.1846, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Borderer's Table Book: Or, Gatherings of the Local History and Romance of the English and Scottish Border, VI, 46
- Synonyms:
- stop
Noun (1)
blin
Noun (2)
blin (plural blini or bliny or blins)
- A blintz or blini.
- The cook raised an immense amount of dough for the bliny. […] “Hey, a blin for me!” one would call, holding out an empty plate with a hand dripping with butter and sour cream.1933, Alexandra Tolstoy, translated by Elena Varneck, The Tragedy of Tolstoy, Yale University Press, page 107
- Have a deep round buttered dish by the side of the stove and put each blin into this dish as it is ready; butter the blin, and place the next blin on top. When all the bliny are cooked, cover the dish with a cloth; it is not essential to serve them immediately.a. 1991, Jane Grigson, The Best of Jane Grigson: The Enjoyment of Food, London: Grub Street, published 1992, republished 2015, →ISBN
Noun (3) capitalized: Blin
Blin pl (plural only)
- An ethnic group from Eritrea.
- Synonyms:
- Bogos
Proper noun capitalized: Blin
Blin
- The Cushitic language spoken by the Blin people.
Examples of blin in a sentence
- A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin ; it may rain all day, and never blin ; the train ran 100 miles, and never blinned.1880, Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall:
- Thus blinned their boast, as we well ken1908, John Masefield, A sailor's garland:
- This is probably why the singular of blini is unknown to most food aficionados, though they do know that these little thin pancakes, of either wheat or buckwheat, often accompany caviar.1995 May 11, Linda Burum, “Markets: Eastern Europe Meets West Hollywood”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times...
- “But Papa, art requires sacrifices,” Olenka would say, standing up for Benedikt. / “The first blin is always lumpy,” Mother-in-law comforted. / “There you go, talking about bliny again!2003, Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambrell, The Slynx, New York, N.Y.: The New York Review of Books, →ISBN:
Synonyms of blin
Forms of blin
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | blins |
| present participle | blinning |
| past | blinned |
| past | blan |
| past participle | blinned |
| past participle | blan |
| past participle | blun |
| Noun | |
| plural | blini |
| plural | bliny |
| plural | blins |
| alternative form | Bilin |
| alternative form | Bilen |
| alternative form | Belen |
| alternative form | Bilein |
Origin of blin
From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.
From Russian блин (blin, “pancake, flat object”).
From Blin ብሊና (bəlina), bélina.
Words that rhyme with blin
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- chin
- Flynn
- bin
- Quinn
- sin
- tin
- Bryn
- corinne
- inn
- din
- Finn
- grin
- kin
- lin
- linn
- unpin
- Benin
- min
- shin
- violin
- wherein
- within
- akin
- been
- begin
- brin
- chin-chin
- hin
- lyn
- mandolin
- whin
- zoom in
- agin
- agrin
- Arabian jasmine
- djinn
- Douyin
- edge in
- gimme some skin
- glyn
- herein
- jinn
- Karin
- kissing kin
- lecithin
- Nguyen
- nin
Questions about blin
- What does blin mean?
- Blin means to cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
- How do you use blin in a sentence?
- A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin ; it may rain all day, and never blin ; the train ran 100 miles, and never blinned.
- What part of speech is blin?
- Blin can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce blin?
- Blin is pronounced /blɪn/.
- What is the past tense of blin?
- The past tense of blin is blinned.
Words near blin in the dictionary
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