blinky
Adjective
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Adjective
blinky
- Of eyes or people/animals: blinking repeatedly, prone to blink.
- 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, Book Two, Chapter I,
- She sat stuffed into a small chair and listened with an intense and very blinky sort of concentration.
- 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, New York: Knopf, Chapter 36,
- He was a literature professor, neurotic and blinky behind his glasses […]
- 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, Book Two, Chapter I,
- (of lights, shining objects) flickery, prone to flicker
- 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, New York: Scribner, Part 6, Chapter 4,
- […] 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, regional) Of milk: turned somewhat sour.
- 2013, Steve Blow, "Beward of toxic milk — and other expiration-date silliness," The Dallas Morning News, 12 October, 2013,
- I mean really, who needs a date stamped on the jug to tell you when milk has gone bad? It’s got a built-in warning system. First, you get that little whang in the taste. It’s gone blinky. Time to think about getting more.
- Synonyms: off
- 2013, Steve Blow, "Beward of toxic milk — and other expiration-date silliness," The Dallas Morning News, 12 October, 2013,
blinky (plural blinkies)
- (photography) in digital photography, a flashing pixel.
- Blinkies visually indicate the areas of a photograph where the exposure is beyond the range of the film.
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