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bleah en · INTJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Meanings

  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: