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Blim vs Blin - What's the difference?

blim | blin |

As nouns the difference between blim and blin

is that blim is a chunk of cannabis resin while blin is cessation; end.

As a verb blin is

to cease from.

As a proper noun Blin is

an ethnic group from Eritrea.

blim

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang, UK) A chunk of cannabis resin.
  • * 2005 , James Fergusson, Kandahar Cockney (page 322)
    • Getting stoned in Afghanistan was an extreme sport, a very long way indeed from the polite blims of hash that middle-class Londoners sometimes consume at parties.
  • * 2008 , Dhivan Thomas Jones, Green Eros (page 114)
    • Have those chaps nothing better to do than to bust me for a blim ?
  • * 2011 , Niall Griffiths, Grits (page 274)
    • — Can anyone spair us a blim ? Mags sez.

    blin

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) blinnen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To cease from.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
    • nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].
  • (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 :
    • 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

    Noun

  • (obsolete) cessation; end

    • Etymology 2

    (wikipedia) From (etyl) .
  • A blintz.

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