Blin vs Swike - What's the difference?
blin | swike |
(obsolete) To cease from.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
(archaic, or, dialectal) To stop, desist; to cease to move, run, flow, etc., let up.
* 1880 , Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall :
* 1908 , John Masefield, A sailor's garland :
(obsolete) cessation; end
A blintz.
(transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To deceive, cheat; betray
(transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To stop, blin, cease
(dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Deceit; treachery
(dialectal, or, obsolete) A deceiver; betrayer, traitor
* 1848 , Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings :
(dialectal, or, obsolete) A hiding place; den; cave
As verbs the difference between blin and swike
is that blin is to cease from while swike is to deceive, cheat; betray.As nouns the difference between blin and swike
is that blin is cessation; end while swike is deceit; treachery.As a proper noun Blin
is an ethnic group from Eritrea.As an adjective swike is
deceitful; treacherous.blin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) blinnen, from (etyl) .Verb
- nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].
- 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 .
- Thus blinned their boast, as we well ken
Noun
Etymology 2
(wikipedia) From (etyl) .Anagrams
*swike
English
Verb
Noun
(en noun)- The Saxon Chronicle contradicts itself as to Algar's outlawry, stating in one passage that he was outlawed without any kind of guilt, and in another that he was outlawed as swike , or traitor, and that he made a confession of it before all the men there gathered.
