blinkingly
- adverb
- /ˈblɪŋkɪŋli/
:
parpadeando
- The photographer captured her blinkingly surprised expression when the flash went off.
Examples
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After hearing the unexpected news, he blinkingly stared at his friend in disbelief.
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The boy blinkingly hurries through the reeds, strangely accurate about the direction of escape.
Fiction book (1991) -
She looked at the bright sun, squinting and blinkingly adjusting her eyes to the light.
How Often
95
2.3
47
3.9
15
6.0
438
2.0
539
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
blinkingly = blinking (transparent) = blink + ing + ly
The adverb is formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'blinking', a recognizable participial base.
Etymology
The word blinkingly comes from the simple verb blink ('to close and open your eyes quickly') plus the endings -ing and -ly to make it describe how something is done. Think of a light switching on and off—when something is sudden or very bright you look blinkingly, so the word means doing something with quick, surprised blinks.