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blinning

blinning is the present participle and gerund of blin.

Meaning of blin

Verb

blin (third-person singular simple present blins, present participle blinning, simple past blinned or blan, past participle blinned or blan or blun)

  1. (Scotland, Yorkshire, especially, obsolete, Northumberland) 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
    Synonyms:
    stop

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Questions about blinning

What is blinning the present participle and gerund of?
Blinning is the present participle and gerund of blin.

Words near blinning in the dictionary

  1. blinkt
  2. blinky
  3. Blinn
  4. blinned
  5. blinnies
  6. blinning
  7. Blinns
  8. blinny
  9. blins
  10. blintse
  11. blintses

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