Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blick
Participle: blicked
Gerund: blicking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blick |
| you | blick |
| he;she;it | blicks |
| we | blick |
| you | blick |
| they | blick |
Perfect
| I | have blicked |
| you | have blicked |
| he;she;it | has blicked |
| we | have blicked |
| you | have blicked |
| they | have blicked |
Past
| I | blicked |
| you | blicked |
| he;she;it | blicked |
| we | blicked |
| you | blicked |
| they | blicked |
Pluperfect
| I | had blicked |
| you | had blicked |
| he;she;it | had blicked |
| we | had blicked |
| you | had blicked |
| they | had blicked |
Future
| I | will blick |
| you | will blick |
| he;she;it | will blick |
| we | will blick |
| you | will blick |
| they | will blick |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blicked |
| you | will have blicked |
| he;she;it | will have blicked |
| we | will have blicked |
| you | will have blicked |
| they | will have blicked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blick |
| you | blick |
| he;she;it | blick |
| we | blick |
| you | blick |
| they | blick |
Perfect
| I | have blicked |
| you | have blicked |
| he;she;it | have blicked |
| we | have blicked |
| you | have blicked |
| they | have blicked |
Imperfect
| I | blicked |
| you | blicked |
| he;she;it | blicked |
| we | blicked |
| you | blicked |
| they | blicked |
Pluperfect
| I | had blicked |
| you | had blicked |
| he;she;it | had blicked |
| we | had blicked |
| you | had blicked |
| they | had blicked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blick |
| you | would blick |
| he;she;it | would blick |
| we | would blick |
| you | would blick |
| they | would blick |
Perfect
| I | would have blicked |
| you | would have blicked |
| he;she;it | would have blicked |
| we | would have blicked |
| you | would have blicked |
| they | would have blicked |
Imperative
| you | blick |
| we | Let's blick |
| you | blick |
Verbs conjugated like 'blick'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blick'
belick,
black,
bleck,
blink,
block,
brick,
click,
flick,
lick,
slick,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
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.
Sample Sentences
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Shirley Steynes Bluey took a deep breath as he entered the main street; nothing new under the sun-lamp as white pinks blicked across the street in a line of heat-glazed asterisks [1978, Michael Wilding, The Tabloid Story Pocket Book, page 82:]
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The lancing sunlight blicked sharps of light from the scattering of sand on the marble of the plinth. [2006, Hugh Cook, The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster, page 646:]
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The recorder blicked off, and the tape hissed to the end of the reel in silence. [1988, Sheila Radley, The chief inspector's daughter, page 171:]
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He pulled out a cigarette lighter and blicked it. [2005, Clyde White, Garbage Angel: Sarah's Story, page 16:]
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On her first day, as she walked into work[…][s]he blicked-in at the time clock[…] [2014, Lynn Russell, The sweethearts, page 231 (large print edition):]