"ablink" meaning in All languages combined

See ablink on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Etymology: a- + blink Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|a|blink}} a- + blink Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} ablink (not comparable)

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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "a",
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      },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912, Saki, “Sredni Vashtar”, in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, pages 100–101",
          "text": "[…] out through that doorway came a long, low, yellow-and-brown beast, with eyes a-blink at the waning daylight […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Poul Anderson, chapter 3, in Hrolf Kraki’s Saga, New York: Ballantine Books, page 49",
          "text": "The fog lifted quite suddenly toward the evening—and there were those lean hulls, ablink with mail and spears […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Burt Kearns, chapter 7, in Tabloid Baby, Nashville: Celebrity Books, page 94",
          "text": "Emergency flashers ablink, I drove alongside the long queue to the gas pumps.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Blinking; filled or covered (with things that are blinking)."
      ],
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        [
          "Blinking",
          "blink"
        ]
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
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    }
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}
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1912, Saki, “Sredni Vashtar”, in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, pages 100–101",
          "text": "[…] out through that doorway came a long, low, yellow-and-brown beast, with eyes a-blink at the waning daylight […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Poul Anderson, chapter 3, in Hrolf Kraki’s Saga, New York: Ballantine Books, page 49",
          "text": "The fog lifted quite suddenly toward the evening—and there were those lean hulls, ablink with mail and spears […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Burt Kearns, chapter 7, in Tabloid Baby, Nashville: Celebrity Books, page 94",
          "text": "Emergency flashers ablink, I drove alongside the long queue to the gas pumps.",
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        }
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