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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French blettir, coined by John Lindley.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]blet (third-person singular simple present blets, present participle bletting, simple past and past participle bletted)
- To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^
John Lindley (1835) Introduction to Botany, page 296:
- After the period of ripeness, most fleshy fruits undergo a new kind of alteration; their flesh either rots or blets. […] May I be forgiven for coining a word to express that peculiar bruised appearance in some fruits, called blessi [sic] by the French, for which we have no equivalent English expression ?
Emphasis and footnote in original, and though written as blessi, the French word for bletted is blette, and Lindley coined “blet”, suggesting an error in the text.
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin blitum, from Ancient Greek βλίτον (blíton).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]blet m (plural blets)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “blet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adjective
[edit]blet (feminine blette, masculine plural blets, feminine plural blettes)
Further reading
[edit]- “blet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Lithuanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian блядь (bljadʹ).
Interjection
[edit]blet
- (vulgar) used as filler or intensifier
- Ką tu padarei blet?
- What the fuck did you do?
- Žinojau, blet! Žinojau!
- I fucking knew this!
Usage notes
[edit]- Sometimes used in conjunction with kurva, a feature most likely unique to Lithuanian swearing.
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Early Medieval Latin bladum.
Noun
[edit]blet oblique singular, m (oblique plural blez or bletz, nominative singular blez or bletz, nominative plural blet)
Descendants
[edit]- French: blé
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