blick
To shine, gleamTo shine, gleam.
Meaning
4 senses(transitive)To shine, gleam.
(ambitransitive, nonce word)To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.
(intransitive)Of gold or silver, to exhibit blick.
(Multicultural London English, slang, transitive)To shoot up (fire bullets at).
Origin
Perhaps onomatopoeic; perhaps an error for, or a nonce alteration of, blink or click; perhPerhaps onomatopoeic; perhaps an error for, or a nonce alteration of, blink or click; perhaps a continuation of Middle English bliken (compare blicker), which may have survived in dialect despite not being attested in print for 500 years.
From German Blick (“look, glance, twinkle, flash”), from Middle High German blic, from Old High German blik, blich, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *blikiz (“shine, appearance, look”), related to *blīkaną.
Probably from replacing the initial letter C of click with the letter B in Blood slang.
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Forms
blicks, blicking, blicked, blickedWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle