different between blanky vs blinky

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

A euphemistic substitution for the expletive bloody.

Adjective

blanky (not comparable)

1. (Australia, slang) A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.

Etymology 2

Shortened from blanket +? -y.

Noun

blanky (plural blankies)

1. Alternative form of blankie

English

Etymology

From blink +? -y.

Adjective

blinky (comparative more blinky, superlative most blinky)

1. Of eyes or people/animals: blinking repeatedly, prone to blink.
   • 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, Book Two, Chapter I, [1]

     She sat stuffed into a small chair and listened with an intense and very blinky sort of concentration.

   • 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, New York: Knopf, Chapter 36,

     He was a literature professor, neurotic and blinky behind his glasses […]

2. (of lights, shining objects) flickery, prone to flicker
   • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, New York: Scribner, Part 6, Chapter 4,

     […] the rosary beads that hung from her belt like a zoot-suiter's key chain were blinky bright […]

3. (US, regional) Of milk: turned somewhat sour.
   • 2013, Steve Blow, "Beward of toxic milk — and other expiration-date silliness," The Dallas Morning News, 12 October, 2013, [4]

     I mean really, who needs a date stamped on the jug to tell you when milk has gone bad? It’s got a built-in warning system. First, you get that little whang in the taste. It’s gone blinky. Time to think about getting more.

   Synonym: off

Noun

blinky (plural blinkies)

1. (photography) in digital photography, a flashing pixel.

   Blinkies visually indicate the areas of a photograph where the exposure is beyond the range of the film.

See also

• blinkie
• on the blink