blick.
To shine, gleam.
Meaning & usage
To shine, gleam.
To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.
Where this word comes from
Perhaps 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.
The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.
Where this word comes from
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. Cognate with Dutch blik, Danish blik, Icelandic blik (“gleam, sheen”), Old English blice (“sheen, denuded site”).
Of gold or silver, to exhibit blick.
Where this word comes from
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. Cognate with Dutch blik, Danish blik, Icelandic blik (“gleam, sheen”), Old English blice (“sheen, denuded site”).
A sawed-off length of something.
A pistol.
Where this word comes from
Probably from replacing the initial letter C of click with the letter B in Blood slang.
To shoot up (fire bullets at).
Where this word comes from
Probably from replacing the initial letter C of click with the letter B in Blood slang.
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