# blinder
## English
### Etymology

From blind +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈblaɪndə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈblaɪndɚ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Adjective

blinder
* comparative form of blind: more blind
** 1830, William Pashley, The Voice of Reason in Defence of the Christian Faith:Ye who arrogate to yourselves that ye see more, or at least are not so blind as others; in your unbelieving conduct, allow me to say, ye are blinder than others; ye are even blinder than the most ignorant and illiterate.

### Noun

blinder (plural blinders)
* Something that blinds.
** 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 15, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.:As it was, innocence was his blinder.
** 2016 February 5, Wesley Schultz and Jeremy Fraites, “Ophelia”, in Cleopatra‎, performed by The Lumineers:I, I, got a new girlfriend / She feels like he's on top / And I don't feel no remorse / And you can't see past my blinders
* A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
* A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
** 1969, Kenzaburō Ōe, chapter 5, in John Nathan, transl., A Personal Matter, New York: Grove Press, page 84:From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.
** 1978, Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vinatage, published 2003, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 207:Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders.
* (British, slang) An exceptional performance.
    He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.
** 1992, Glyn Maxwell, “Out of the Rain”, in Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990 to 1995, New York: Houghton Mifflin, published 2000, page 91:And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out
* (slang) A bout of heavy drinking; a bender.
** 1985 May 2, John Maxton, Hansard:If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man.
* (theater) A bright light used to blind the audience temporarily during a scene change.
** 1992, The Lighting Journal, page 9:When the 'blinders' are switched off, and the audience's eyes given time to re-adjust, the new scene is in place […]

#### Synonyms

* (horse's blindfold): blinker, winker
* (exceptional performance): cracker

#### Derived terms

* peaky blinder

#### Translations
### Verb

blinder (third-person singular simple present blinders, present participle blindering, simple past and past participle blindered)
* (transitive) To fit (a horse) with blinders.
* (transitive, figurative, by extension) To obstruct the vision of.
** 1958, Sylvia Plath, “Above the Oxbow”, in The Collected Poems, New York: Harper & Row, page 88:[…] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky
** 1986, Tessa Albert Warschaw, Rich is Better: How Women Can Bridge the Gap Between Wanting and Having It All — Financially, Emotionally, Professionally, Penguin, page 248:They think they're being focussed when they're really just blindering their eyes, as a farmer would a plough horse, to ways of getting to their goal faster.

### Anagrams

* Brindle, brindle

## French
### Etymology

From blinde +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blɛ̃.de/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

blinder
* to armor; to reinforce

#### Derived terms

* blindage

#### Descendants

* → Italian: blindare
* → Portuguese: blindar
* → Spanish: blindar

### Further reading

* “blinder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈblɪndɐ/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

blinder
* comparative degree of blind

### Adjective

blinder
* inflection of blind:
** strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
** strong genitive/dative feminine singular
** strong genitive plural

## Old Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse blindr, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

### Adjective

blinder
* blind
* invisible, obscure

#### Descendants

* Swedish: blind

## Welsh
### Etymology

From blin +‎ -der.

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA: /ˈblɪndɛr/
** (North Wales, colloquial) IPA: /ˈblɪndar/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈblɪndɛr/

### Noun

blinder m (plural blinderau)
* (uncountable) tiredness, weariness, fatigue
    Synonyms: lludded, blinderusrwydd, blinedd
* (uncountable) (of soil) exhausted
    Synonyms: disbyddedig, disbydd
* (uncountable) tedium
    Synonym: diflastod
* (usually countable) trouble, affliction, distress
    Synonyms: cystudd, trallod, adferth, ttafferth, gofid, poen

#### Derived terms

* blinderog (“weary, tired, tiring”)
* blinderol (“tired, tiring, annoying, tedious”)
* blinderus (“wearisome, tiring; troublesome, troubling”)
* diflinder (“tirelessness”)
* gorflinder (“exhaustion, fatigue”)

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “blinder”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies