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Blin vs Blix - What's the difference?

blin | blix |

As nouns the difference between blin and blix

is that blin is cessation; end while blix is guns.

As a verb blin

is to cease from.

As a proper noun Blin

is an ethnic group from Eritrea.

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.

    • Anagrams

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    blix

    English

    Noun

  • (slang, African American Vernacular English) Guns.
    • See all these blix?
    African American Vernacular English