gleam or glimmer of light, especially of sunshine between clouds. Such a watery blink is often ‘the blink afore the blatter’ the moment of sunshine before a heavy shower such as is described in the Analecta Scotica (1716): The sune was shyning on them but the blink was wattery, lyk that befor rain. A blinkie day is one of alternating sunshine and threatening skies.