blinkard

noun — 2 senses

blinkard

noun

/ˈblɪŋkə(ɹ)d/

1

Obsolete One with bad eyes.

2

A dim-witted or stupid person; an idiot.

  • For I was of Christ's choosing, I God's knight, No blinkard heathen stumbling for scant light; I can well see, for all the dusty days Gone past, the clean great time of goodly fight.1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris:

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