† blindmann.
Now written as two words.
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blindc1000
blindmanc1325
Samsonc1460
blindling1549
groper1699
darkie1807
c1325 Chron. Eng. 769 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës II. 302 Ant a blindmon hede sihte.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 187 You strike like the blindman . View more context for this quotation
Derivatives
blind man's ball n. a local name of the Puff-ball fungus, or Blind-ball; see blind adj. Compounds. [Perhaps so called because of a belief that the dust of this plant caused blindness (compare Linnaeus Flora Suecica (1755) 460).]
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1812 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1830) IV. 349.
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