different between linky vs blinky

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link +? -y

linky (not comparable)

(informal) Of or pertaining to hyperlinks.
- 2008, Dori Smith, Dreamweaver CS4 for Windows and Macintosh (page 68)
  You'll see how to add links to either text or graphics and lots of other linky goodness.

From blink +? -y.

blinky (comparative more blinky, superlative most blinky)

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 […]
(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 […]
(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

blinky (plural blinkies)

(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.

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