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English-Galician CLUVI Dictionary, 2nd edition (revised version 2.2)

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



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- blest, blight, blighting, blind, blindcord, blindfolded, blinding, blindly, blindness, blink, blinking, bliss, blissful, blister, blistering, blithely, blizzard, bloated, blob


blink


- intransitive verb
- pestanexar

EN I must have sat there stunned and blinking at the note as much as a minute before I came rightly to myself again.
GL Debín sentar alí, atordado e pestanexando, diante do billete durante un minuto enteiro antes de ser quen de volver no meu acordo.
- Fonte: BIL (44)
- chiscar

EN His next acquaintance was an owl, a mighty wise looking bird, with a huge head and staring eyes, who sat blinking and goggling all day in a hole in the wall, but roamed forth at night.
GL Logo entrou en relación cunha curuxa, un paxaro enorme de fasquía impoñente e sabichona, cunha cabeza desconforme e os ollos fixos e regalados, que botaba o día enteiro a chiscar e a esguella-los ollos nun burato da parede, mais á noite ruaba por aí adiante.
- Fonte: ALH (377)
- lampexar

EN But then the patches blinked more rapidly, dulled and went out, so that he saw that a great heaviness of smoke lay between the island and the sun.
GL Pero, despois, as manchas de sol lampexaron máis rapidamente, fóronse apagando e por fin desapareceron; Ralph decatouse de que había unha gran columna de fume entre a illa e o sol.
- Fonte: SEN (6084)
- palpebrexar

EN He blinked as though the snow hurt his eyes.
GL Palpebrexou coma se a neve lle ferise os ollos.
- Fonte: ASA (4182)


- noun
.....--- as the blink of an eye
- nun abrir e pechar de ollos

EN In geological terms, that is as fast as the blink of an eye.
GL É dicir, nun abrir e pechar de ollos a escala xeolóxica.
- Fonte: C32 (797)