- blinker (n.)
[blinker 词源字典] - 1630s, "one who blinks," agent noun from blink (v.). As a type of horse eye screen to keep the animal looking straight ahead, from 1789. Slang meaning "the eye" is from 1816. Meaning "intermittent flashing light" is from 1923.[blinker etymology, blinker origin, 英语词源]
- blinkered (adj.)
- in the figurative sense, 1867, from horses wearing blinkers to limit the range of their vision (see blinker).
- clinker (n.)
- "mass of slag," 1769, from klincard (1640s), a type of paving brick made in Holland, from Dutch klinkaerd, from klinken "to ring" (as it does when struck), of imitative origin. Also "a clinch-nail;" hence clinker-built (1769). The meaning "stupid mistake" is first recorded 1950 in American English; originally (1942) "a wrong note in music."
