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blinkards

blinkards is the plural of blinkard.

Meaning of blinkard

Noun

blinkard (plural blinkards)

  1. (obsolete) One with bad eyes.
  2. A dim-witted or stupid person; an idiot.
    • For I was of Christ's choosing, I God's knight,
      No blinkard heathen stumbling for scant light;
      I can well see, for all the dusty days
      Gone past, the clean great time of goodly fight.1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris

Questions about blinkards

What is blinkards the plural of?
Blinkards is the plural of blinkard.

Words near blinkards in the dictionary

  1. blink-and-you-miss-it
  2. blink-eyed
  3. blinkah
  4. blinkahs
  5. blinkard
  6. blinkards
  7. blinked
  8. blinked first
  9. Blinken
  10. blinkenlight
  11. blinkenlights

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