different between blin vs crepe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnan? (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- +? lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.

Verb

blin (third-person singular simple present blins, present participle blinning, simple past blinned or blan, past participle blinned or blun)

1. (obsolete, especially Scotland, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

     nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].

   • 1846, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Borderer's Table Book: Or, Gatherings of the Local History and Romance of the English and Scottish Border, VI, 46:

     One while the little foot page went, / And another while he ran; / Until he came to his journey's end / The little foot page never blan.

   • 1880, Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall:

     A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin ; it may rain all day, and never blin ; the train ran 100 miles, and never blinned.

Synonyms

• (to cease): see Thesaurus:stop, see also Thesaurus:desist

Noun

blin

1. (obsolete) Cessation; end.

Etymology 2

From Russian ???? (blin, “pancake, flat object”).

Noun

blin

1. A blintz.

Anagrams

• LNIB

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bli?n/

Adjective

blin (feminine singular blin, plural blinion, equative blined, comparative blinach, superlative blinaf)

1. tired, weary

   Synonym: blinedig

2. tiresome, wearisome
3. troubling, troublesome, distressing
4. (North Wales) angry, cross, mad

   Dw i'n flin am y ddamwain.

   I'm cross about the accident.

5. (South Wales) sorry

   W i'n flin am y ddamwain.

   I'm sorry about the accident.

   Mae'n flin 'da fi.

   I'm sorry.

Derived terms

• blinder (“tiredness, weariness; trouble, affliction”)
• blinedig (“tired”)
• blino (“to tire, to become weary; to trouble, to afflict”)
• diflino (“tireless, untiring”)
• gorflinder (“exhaustion”)
• gorflino (“to overtire”)
• wedi blino (“tired”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “blin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English blind, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind.

Adjective

blin

1. mistaken

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• crêpe

Etymology

From French crêpe, from Latin crispus. Doublet of crisp.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /k?e?p/, /k??p/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??p/

Noun

crepe (countable and uncountable, plural crepes)

1. A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat.
2. A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface.
3. Crepe paper; thin, crinkled tissue paper.
4. Rubber in sheets, used especially for shoe soles.

   The policeman wore crepe-soled shoes.

5. (Ireland) A death notice printed on white card with a background of black crepe paper or cloth, placed on the door of a residence or business.

Synonyms

• (fabric): crape
• (thin pancake): French pancake
• (rubber): crepe rubber

Translations

Verb

crepe (third-person singular simple present crepes, present participle creping, simple past and past participle creped)

1. (transitive) To crease (paper) in such a way to make it look like crepe paper
2. (transitive) To frizz (the hair).

Translations

Anagrams

• CREEP, Perce, Percé, creep, perce

Italian

Noun

crepe f

1. plural of crepa

Anagrams

• prece

Middle English

Verb

crepe

1. Alternative form of crepen

Portuguese

Etymology

From French crêpe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??pe/, /?k??pi/

Noun

crepe m (plural crepes)

1. crepe, crêpe