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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.

USAGE:

“The sound of frogs blating like new calves from the culvert horn of the ramp.”
Janice Daugharty; Vision Quest; 2010.

See more usage examples of blate in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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