bleah

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English

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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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. []

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Romanian

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Noun

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bleah n (plural bleahuri)

  1. Alternative form of bleau

Declension

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