Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Lacking awareness; clueless or confused.
A smear, smudge or blot. · Something that appears hazy or indistinct. · Haziness, blurriness. · A moral stain or blot.
To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim. · To smear, stain or smudge. · To become indistinct. · To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.
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