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blat

[blat]Chiefly Northeastern U.S. and Great Lakes.
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verb (used without object), blat·ted, blat·ting.
  1. bleat.
  2. to make a loud or raucous noise.
verb (used with object), blat·ted, blat·ting.
  1. to utter loudly and indiscreetly; blurt.
noun
  1. bleat(def 4).

Origin of blat

1840–50; perhaps expressive variant of bleat; cf. blate2
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Examples from the Web for blatting

Historical Examples

  • So it came snorting and blatting to the other side and climbed up the bank.

    The Free Range

    Francis William Sullivan

  • When she again killed the blatting motor, she let it stay dead.

    Free Air

    Sinclair Lewis

  • Swept up in a bunch of blatting bull calves like that, and me the size I am?

    Stepsons of Light

    Eugene Manlove Rhodes

  • The Major was with him every step of the way, blatting about his friend Fitzpatrick.

    Fore!

    Charles Emmett Van Loan

  • He dragged the first one to the spot where the calf was blatting so pitifully.

British Dictionary definitions for blatting

blat

verb blats, blatting or blatted US and Canadian
  1. (intr) to cry out or bleat like a sheep
  2. (tr) to utter indiscreetly in a loud voice

Word Origin

C19: of imitative origin
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Word Origin and History for blatting

blat

v.

1846, U.S. colloquial, imitative. Related: Blatted; blatting. As a noun from 1904.

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