bloat

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse blautr (“soft”), akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bləʊt/
• IPA^(key): /bloʊt/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

Verb

bloat (third-person singular simple present bloats, present participle bloating, simple past and past participle bloated)

1. to cause to become distended.
2. (intransitive) (veterinary medicine) to get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
3. to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell
4. (intransitive) to become distended; to swell up

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Arbuthnot to this entry?)

5. to fill with vanity or conceit

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

6. to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking

   bloated herring

Translations

to cause to become distended

• Bulgarian: подувам се (poduvam se), подпухвам (bg) (podpuhvam)
• Dutch: zwellen (nl), uitdeinen,
• German: schwellen (de), aufblasen (de), aufblähen
• Italian: gonfiare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: inchar (pt)
• Spanish: hinchar (es), inflar (es)
• Walloon: gonfler (wa)

to get an overdistended rumen

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: نْفخ (nfaḵ)

• French: gonfler (fr), météoriser (fr)
• German: aufblähen
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: gonfiarsi (it)
• Tashelhit: ⵉⴱⵣⴳ (ibzəg)
• Walloon: boscheter (wa), gonfler (wa)

to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: نْفخ (nfaḵ)

• Bulgarian: надувам (bg) (naduvam), издувам (bg) (izduvam)
• Dutch: opblazen (nl), volpompen (nl),
• French: gonfler (fr), bouffir (fr), boursoufler (fr)
• German: aufblasen (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: duzzad (hu)
• Portuguese: encher (pt)
• Russian: надувать (ru) impf (naduvatʹ), раздувать (ru) impf (razduvatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: sèid
• Spanish: inflar (es)
• Walloon: gonfler (wa)

to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking

• Bulgarian: осолявам и опушвам (риба)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Dutch: pekelen (nl)

Noun

bloat (plural bloats)

1. Distention of the abdomen from death.
2. (veterinary medicine) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.

   Synonym: ruminal tympany

3. (figurative) Wasteful use of space or other resources.

   Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat.

4. (derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.

Translations

overdistension of rumen

• French: météorisme (fr), tympanisme (fr)
• German: Aufblähen, Tympanie
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Walloon: boschetaedje (wa), gonflaedje

Adjective

bloat (comparative more bloat, superlative most bloat)

1. (obsolete) bloated

Anagrams

• Balto-, Blato, balot