blound
English
Etymology
Irregularization of blind, by analogy with bind/bound.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblaʊnd/
- Rhymes: -aʊnd
Verb
blound
- (nonstandard, humorous) simple past tense and past participle of blind
- 1912, George B. Morewood, "A Victim of Irregularity", in Puck, vol. 72, no. 1857 (2 Oct. 1912).
- Of earlier days, I think, he thought/Ere Hymen's bonds had bound—/Before his links were firmly lought—/When he by blond was blound.
- Dizzy Dean (1910–1974), quoted by Steven Pinker, in The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, W. Morrow and Company, New York (1994), p. 140.
- The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it!
- 1969, Jay Cline, Voices in Literature, Language, and Composition, book 1, p. 109.
- The boy was thrould, as he pept through eyes that once had been blound by an explosion.
- 1912, George B. Morewood, "A Victim of Irregularity", in Puck, vol. 72, no. 1857 (2 Oct. 1912).
Synonyms
- blinded
Anagrams
- unbold