blet

Borrowed from French blettir, coined by John Lindley.^[1]

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /blɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

blet (third-person singular simple present blets, present participle bletting, simple past and past participle bletted)

1. To undergo or cause to undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.
   • c. 1835, B. Maund, The Botanic Garden, Or, Magazine of Flowering Plants, Volume 6, Simpkin & Marshall, page 115,

     Bletting is in particular a special alteration; it appears that the more austere a fruit is before this is brought on, the more it is capable of bletting regularly.

   • 2011, Mark Diacono, Fruit: River Cottage Handbook No.9, Bloomsbury Publishing, unnumbered page:

     You can also hasten the bletting process by giving firm medlars a night in the freezer. I usually pick some medlars early to blet a little indoors, as this is perfect for making jelly, whereas fully soft fruit is ideal for any other use.

   • 2021, Adele Nozedar, The Tree Forager, Watkins Media, unnumbered page:

     For example, you wouldn't be happy if you bit into a medlar. They need to be bletted (left to go over-ripe) before you can eat them but, once bletted, medlars taste sweet – a little bit like dates. […] To be frank, bletting is a more polite word for "rotting".

• bletting

• ripening
• rotting

blet (plural blets)

1. A soft spot on fruit caused by bletting.

• Belt, belt

Inherited from Latin blitum, from Ancient Greek βλίτον (blíton).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈblɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈblət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈblet]

blet m (plural blets)

1. goosefoot

• bleda

• “blet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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blet (feminine blette, masculine plural blets, feminine plural blettes)

1. overripe

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

• bliat, ble

Borrowed from Russian блядь (bljadʹ).

• IPA^(key): /blʲæːt/

blet

1. (vulgar) used as filler or intensifier

   Ką tu padarei blet?

   What the fuck did you do?

   Žinojau, blet! Žinojau!

   I fucking knew this!

• Sometimes used in conjunction with kurva, a feature most likely unique to Lithuanian swearing.

• IPA^(key): /bleːt/

blēt

1. third-person singular present indicative of blōtan

• bled, blé

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin bladum.

blet oblique singular, m (oblique plural blez or bletz, nominative singular blez or bletz, nominative plural blet)

1. wheat, corn

• French: blé