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▪ I. blunk, n. Sc.
[Cf. blunket.]
In pl. ‘Linen or cotton cloths which are wrought for being printed; calicoes’ (Jamieson).
1830Chamb. Jrnl. (1836) 31 Dec. 392 That Catrine blunks wad hae a chance To tak the lead; Nocht like them can be got frae France Sae cheap an' guid.
▪ II. blunk, v. Obs. or dial.
[app. a corruption of blenk or blink.]
†1. intr. To turn aside, blench, flinch, shrink. Obs.
1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. ix. §2 (1669) 56/1 The presumptuous sinner..goes on & never blunks. 1680Hickeringill Meroz 27 That can swallow Oath upon Oath..and still their Consciences blunk no more than a piece of Brass?
2. (trans.) Sc. ‘To spoil a thing, to mismanage any business’ (Jamieson).
▪ III. blunk
variant of blonk, Obs., steed. |