blink
blink
/blɪŋk/
1 intransitive, transitive blink (something) when you blink or blink your eyes or your eyes blink, you shut and open your eyes quickly He blinked in the bright sunlight.
Lucy blinked at him in astonishment.
I'll be back before you can blink (= very quickly).
When I told him the news he didn't even blink (= showed no surprise at all).
Collocations
adverb
hardfuriouslyquickly…
preposition
atinwith…
phrases
blink away a tearblink back tearsblink your eyes…
2 intransitive to shine with an unsteady light; to flash on and off Suddenly a warning light blinked.
Phrasal Verbs
blink
/blɪŋk/
the act of shutting and opening your eyes very quickly
Idioms
Word Origin
Middle English: from blenk, Scots variant of blench, reinforced by Middle Dutch blinken ‘to shine’. Early senses included ‘deceive’, ‘flinch’ (compare with blench), and also ‘open the eyes after sleep’: hence sense (1) (mid 16th cent.).
e.g.
You're one hell of a man. You didn't even blink. たいした男だ まばたきひとつしておらん (/yupeco/『ゴールデンカムイ』16話)