blin

• IPA^(key): /blɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- +‎ lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.

blin (third-person singular simple present blins, present participle blinning, simple past blinned or blan, past participle blinned or blun)

1. (obsolete, especially Scotland, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].

   • 1846, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Borderer's Table Book: Or, Gatherings of the Local History and Romance of the English and Scottish Border, VI, 46:

     One while the little foot page went, / And another while he ran; / Until he came to his journey's end / The little foot page never blan.

   • 1880, Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall:

     A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin ; it may rain all day, and never blin ; the train ran 100 miles, and never blinned.

   • 1908, John Masefield, A sailor's garland:

     Thus blinned their boast, as we well ken

• (to cease): see Thesaurus:stop, see also Thesaurus:desist

blin

1. (obsolete) Cessation; end.

From Russian блин (blin, “pancake, flat object”).

blin

1. A blintz.

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blin

1. Alternative form of blinnen

Borrowed from Russian блин (blin), from Proto-Slavic *mlinъ. First attested in 1861.[1] Ultimately related to mleć.

• IPA^(key): /blin/

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• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: blin

blin m inan or m anim

1. blini, blintz

   gryczany blin ― buckwheat blintz

   gorący blin ― hot blintz

   bliny z kawiorem ― blintzes with caviar

   jeść bliny ― to eat blintzes

   podać bliny ― to serve blintzes

   zamówić bliny ― to order blintzes

• blin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• blin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /bliːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

blin (feminine singular blin, plural blinion, equative blined, comparative blinach, superlative blinaf)

1. tired, weary

   Synonym: blinedig

2. tiresome, wearisome
3. troubling, troublesome, distressing
4. (North Wales) angry, cross, mad

   Dw i'n flin am y ddamwain.

   I'm cross about the accident.

5. (South Wales) sorry

   W i'n flin am y ddamwain.

   I'm sorry about the accident.

   Mae'n flin 'da fi.

   I'm sorry.

• blinder (“tiredness, weariness; trouble, affliction”)
• blinedig (“tired”)
• blino (“to tire, to become weary; to trouble, to afflict”)
• diflino (“tireless, untiring”)
• gorflinder (“exhaustion”)
• gorflino (“to overtire”)
• wedi blino (“tired”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “blin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind.

blin

1. mistaken
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Ich as (or 'chas) greatly blin.

     I was greatly mistaken.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 26