bleah

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

bleah

  1. (slang, US) Expresses negative feeling. The quality of the emotion expressed is more negative than that of blah and has a slight feeling of disgust, verging on nausea.
    You bought that green station wagon? Bleah!
    • 2005 September 25, William Safire, “The Ick Factor”, in The New York Times:
      Reviewing my list of ickisms - yuck, yecch, bleah, ew and ick - the linguist [David McNeill] observes, "Negative words having to do with disgust seem to be embodied in the experience of expelling unwanted, possibly poisonous, materials from the mouth. […]

Anagrams

Romanian

Noun

bleah n (plural bleahuri)

  1. alternative form of bleau

Declension

Declension of bleah
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bleah bleahul bleahuri bleahurile
genitive-dative bleah bleahului bleahuri bleahurilor
vocative bleahule bleahurilor
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