Green’s Dictionary of Slang

blind v.²

to swear; thus blinding, swearing.

1892

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1966

1892		Kipling ‘The Young British Soldier’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 187: Don’t grouse like a woman nor crack on nor blind / Be handy and civil.
1917		A.G. Empey Over the Top 89: That march was the most uncongenial one imagined, just cussing and blinding all the way.
1919		S. Graham A Private in the Guards 32: Cursing and blinding like some old woman given to drink.
1927		(con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 57: ‘I’ve been hearing you blinding and cursing’.
1933		M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 275: ‘Mind your own cursed business!’ and blasting and blinding, he hauled off Rab.
1938		(ref. to 1920s) F.D. Sharpe Sharpe of the Flying Squad 182: For five or ten minutes he blinded and swore.
1941		G. Kersh They Die with Their Boots Clean 2: I heard that fellow swear something terrible, blinding and bloodying like a bargee.
1951		A. Garve Murder in Moscow (1994) 114: Jeff’s language when we got outside the building was quite unprintable [...] He blinded away about police states, and people who used women as levers.
1960		Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 33: Those solid citizens have to learn to curb the tongue. Creates a bad impression, I mean, if they start blinding and stiffing.
1966		G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 90: She stamped round the paths cursin’ and blindin’.

In phrases

put the blind on (v.)

(Irish) to curse someone.

1997

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