blate
1 Americanadjective
verb (used without object)
noun
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Etymology
Origin of blate1
before 1000; Old English blāt livid, pallid, (of a sound) low (not found in ME)
Origin of blate2
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"Faith, you're not so blate as I thought you!" she said, setting aside the last of her affected shy simplicity.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
My troth, ye're no blate, sirrah, to tell me sae—her ain faither," said Clayslaps, reddening with anger; "but I advise ye, freend, neither to mak nor meddle wi' oor affairs, else ye may repent it.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
Deil hae our saul, neighbour," said the king, reddening, "but ye are not blate!
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
He's "no blate," as they used to say in Scotland, and made himself quite at home to-night.
From Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
But at no time was the genial little poet "blate," as he would himself have said.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid
What meaneth then this blating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
From There is No Harm in Dancing by W. E. Penn
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