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billy-blin(d Sc.|ˈbɪlɪ-blaɪnd|
[Of uncertain origin: see belly-blind.]
1. In ballads, the name of a benevolent household demon or familiar spirit. (See Child Eng. & Sc. Ballads I. 67, Grimm Teut. Myth. (Eng. ed.) II. 473.)
a1802Willie's Ladye xiv. (in Scott Minstr.), Then out and spak the Billy Blind, He spak aye in a gude time. a1806R. Jamieson Pop. Ball. II. 130 (Jam.) Up it starts the Billy Blin, And stood at her bed feet.
2. The game of ‘Blind-man's-buff’; = belly-blind. Hence, billyblinder, he who blindfolds the chief actor in this game; fig. a hoodwinker.
1822Hogg Perils Man III. 387 (Jam.) Ay weel I wat that's little short of a billyblinder. |