blinky

[ bling-kee ]

adjective

, Midland U.S.

, blink·i·er, blink·i·est.

1. (of milk) sour.

Word History and Origins

Origin of blinky¹

blink (in the sense “to turn sour”; compare British dialect blink to bewitch, turn (milk, beer) sour by witchcraft) + -y ¹

Example Sentences

A tile wall shows Pac-Man chasing Blinky, while cans of Spam act as a decorative frieze.

From Seattle Times

I once saw him rap in a state of blinky delirium during the final moments of a 25-hour concert when he only ever stopped rhyming to drink water.

From Washington Post

That distinction is often considered to belong to a Dutch teenager who goes by GeoStique, or to a French player known as Blinky.

From New York Times

For example, Shear defused the sexual tensions of Lee Lozano’s 1964 graphite drawing — a large screw about to penetrate a screw eye — by flanking it with the coolness of a Minimalist drawing by Blinky Palermo and a hypnotic night sky by Vija Celmins.

From New York Times

Forever wearing the expression of a man who just snapped out of a stage magician’s trance, he runs erratically, swims ridiculously, boxes comically and speaks through a harelip-covering mustache with all the twitchy, blinky oddness of a bird that’s suddenly found itself in a human body.

From Los Angeles Times