eyeblink

Meaning

  1. An act of blinking one's eyelids one time.
  2. (idiomatic) A moment (a very short period of time).

Synonyms

Etymology

In summary

From eye + blink. Cognate with Afrikaans oomblik, Dutch ogenblik, German Augenblick, German Low German Ogenblick.

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