Blin vs Crepe - What's the difference?
blin | crepe |
(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.
As verbs the difference between blin and crepe
is that blin is to cease from while crepe is to crease (paper) in such a way to make it look like crepe paper.As nouns the difference between blin and crepe
is that blin is cessation; end while crêpe is an alternative spelling of pancake lang=en.As a proper noun Blin
is an ethnic group from Eritrea.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
