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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Apparently a corruption of blenk and/or blink.
Verb[edit]
blunk (third-person singular simple present blunks, present participle blunking, simple past and past participle blunked)
- (intransitive) To blench, blink; turn aside.
- (transitive, Scotland) To spoil, mismanage.
References[edit]
- “blunk”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Etymology 2[edit]
Ablaut of blink.
Verb[edit]
blunk
- (dialect, colloquial, informal or humorous) simple past of blink
- 2001, Turanga Leela, Futurama episode "The Cyber House Rules"
- I did it! I blunk!
- 2021, Rebecca Curtis , The New Yorker, vol. 97 no. 20, "Satellites"
- Tony blunk.
- 2001, Turanga Leela, Futurama episode "The Cyber House Rules"
Related terms[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Verb[edit]
blunk
- imperative of blunke
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