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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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noun
The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A sawed-off length of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A pistol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, slang
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Synonyms: blicky
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verb
To shine, gleam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, nonce-word
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verb
Of gold or silver, to exhibit blick.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To shoot up (fire bullets at).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive
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History
From German Blick (“look, glance, twinkle, flash”), from Middle High German blic, from Old High German blik, blich, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *blikiz (“shine, appearance, look”), related to *blīkaną. Cognate with Dutch blik, Danish blik, Icelandic blik (“gleam, sheen”), Old English blice (“sheen, denuded site”).
Probably from replacing the initial letter C of click with the letter B in Blood slang.
Perhaps onomatopoeic; perhaps an error for, or a nonce alteration of, blink or click; perhaps a continuation of Middle English bliken (compare blicker), which may have survived in dialect despite not being attested in print for 500 years.
