blinky

/ˈblɪŋki/

blinky adjective: of eyes or people/animals: blinking repeatedly, prone to blink.

Adjective

blinky (comparative more blinky, superlative most blinky)

Of eyes or people/animals: blinking repeatedly, prone to blink.
- She sat stuffed into a small chair and listened with an intense and very blinky sort of concentration.1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book II
- The door of the cabin creaked. Smith's blinky eye peeped out to see if he had dreamed us.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck
flickery, prone to flicker or flash (of lights, shining objects)
- She struck a match and relighted the candle and everyone looked at each other by its winky, blinky light.1906, E. Nesbit, chapter 2, in The Railway Children
- […] the rosary beads that hung from her belt like a zoot-suiter's key chain were blinky bright […]1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, New York: Scribner, Part 6, Chapter 4
(US, dialectal) Of milk: turned somewhat sour.
- No proper place for cooling milk in summer meant not only blinky milk unfit to drink, but no sweet cream for the cream jug that most of them had, and neither good butter nor buttermilk could come from milk not properly cooled.1960, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Seedtime on the Cumberland
- She took a swallow of milk and made a face. "This milk is blinky."
  Mrs. Willet frowned. 'It shouldn't be. I just got it yesterday." She opened the top of the icebox and looked into the ice compartment. She groaned. "The block of ice I got yesterday is almost melted."1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
Synonyms:

off

blinky (plural blinkies)

in digital photography, a flashing pixel.
- Blinkies visually indicate the areas of a photograph where the exposure is beyond the range of the film.

From blink + -y.

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What does blinky mean?: Blinky means of eyes or people/animals: blinking repeatedly, prone to blink.
What part of speech is blinky?: Blinky can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce blinky?: Blinky is pronounced /ˈblɪŋki/.

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