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bleah

bleah interjection: 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.

Interjection

  1. (US, slang) 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!
    • 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. […]2005 September 25, William Safire, “The Ick Factor”, in The New York Times

Origin of bleah

Onomatopoeic.

Questions about bleah

What does bleah mean?
Bleah means 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.
What part of speech is bleah?
Bleah is an interjection.

Words near bleah in the dictionary

  1. bleachyard
  2. bleachyards
  3. blead
  4. bleading edge
  5. Bleadon
  6. bleah
  7. bleak
  8. bleaken
  9. bleakened
  10. bleakening
  11. bleakens

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