blind v.2
to swear; thus blinding, swearing.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 187: Don’t grouse like a woman nor crack on nor blind / Be handy and civil. | ‘The Young British Soldier’ in||
Over the Top 89: That march was the most uncongenial one imagined, just cussing and blinding all the way. | ||
A Private in the Guards 32: Cursing and blinding like some old woman given to drink. | ||
(con. WW1) Patrol 57: ‘I’ve been hearing you blinding and cursing’. | ||
Tramp-Royal on the Toby 275: ‘Mind your own cursed business!’ and blasting and blinding, he hauled off Rab. | ||
(ref. to 1920s) Sharpe of the Flying Squad 182: For five or ten minutes he blinded and swore. | ||
They Die with Their Boots Clean 2: I heard that fellow swear something terrible, blinding and bloodying like a bargee. | ||
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. | ||
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. | ||
Down Among the Meths Men 90: She stamped round the paths cursin’ and blindin’. |
In phrases
(Irish) to curse someone.
Slanguage. |
In exclamations
see separate entry.