BLATE

PRONUNCIATION: (blayt)

MEANING: verb intr.: To babble or to cry.
adjective: Timid.

ANAGRAM: blate = bleat

ETYMOLOGY: For verb: Apparently an alteration of bleat, whose earlier pronunciation rhymed with the word great. Earliest documented use: 1878.
For adjective: From Scots blate (timid, sheepish). Earliest documented use: 1000.
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BLOATE - obs. to become distended with gas (anagram: OBLATE)

BLATTE - (German, pl. of Blat) paper pages (anagram TABLET)

LbLATE - the pounds you inexorably acquire as you age (anti-gram*: BALLET)

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