blee

Noun

blee (countable and uncountable, plural blees)

1. (poetic, otherwise archaic) Color, hue.
   • Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee,— / Toll slowly.1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Rhyme of the Duchess May”, in Poems. … In Two Volumes, new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly. (Late, 186 Strand), →OCLC, stanza XXVI, page...
   • IT was a Mothering Sunday ; / The sky was clear to see / Above the white, white snowdrop, / And the crocus of golden blee.1893, “A Story of Mothering Sunday.”, in The Sunday at Home, volume 40, Religious Tract Society, page 381
2. (archaic) Color of the face, complexion, coloring.
   • "The Felon Sow of Rokeby and the Freers of Richmond", in Christopher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York, Thomas Bowman (publ., 1821, appendix, cvii.
     The sew she would not Latin heare, / But rudely rushed at the Frear, / That he blinked all his blee ; / And when she would have...
   • "The Gay Goss-hawk", The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott: first series, containing Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Sir Tristrem, and Dramatic Pieces, Baudry's European Library (publ.), 1838, page 189 (glossed as “bloom”).
     And pale, pale grew her rosy cheeck, / That was sae bright of blee,⁴ /...
3. (archaic) Consistency, form, texture.
   • I am thrilled half cosmically through by cryptophantic surgings / Till the rhythmic hills roar silent through a spongious kind of blee: / And earth's soul yawns disembowelled of her pancreatic organs, / Like a madrepore if mesmerized, in rapt catalepsy.1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Poet and the Woodlouse”, in The Heptalogia, or, The Seven against Sense: A Cap with Seven Bells (Specimens of Modern Poets), London: Chatto & Windus...
4. (East-Anglia, otherwise archaic) General resemblance, likeness; appearance, aspect, look.
   • 16th c., Nicholas Grimald, The life and poems of Nicholas Grimald, Yale Studies in English, Volume 69, 1925, page 379.
     Meane beautie doth soone fade: therof playn hee, / Who nothing loves in woman, but her blee.
   • BLEE, s[ubstantive] general resemblance, not "colour and complexion," as the dictt. [dictionaries in general] give it; Mr. Nares asserts that it was obsolete in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. If so, we have a very extraordinary instance of the renascence of a word; for it is in use every day in the...[1830, Robert Forby, “BLEE”, in The Vocabulary of East Anglia; an Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as It Existed in the Last Twenty Years of the...

Interjection

1. (informal) Expressing disgust or trepidation.
   • Bikers […] tend to appear at the edges of the road and then zoom in front of your car. […] As you have probably found out already, one touch of these and it's time to order the wooden box. (Blee!)1988, Sinclair User, number 79
   • It's a boring life being a cave man. No telly, no video and not even a Spectrum! Blee! All you can do is eat, but Brontosaurus steaks can be very tough.1991, Nick Roberts, Cavemania (video game review) in Crash (issue 87, page 47)

Proper noun capitalized: Blee

Blee (plural Blees)

1. A surname.