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blee

noun
/bliː/US

Etymology

From Middle English blee, ble, from Old English blēo, bleoh (“color, hue; complexion, form”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“color, blee”). Cognate with Scots ble, blee, blie (“color, complexion”), Old Frisian blī, blie (“color, hue; complexion”) (whence North Frisian bläy, Saterland Frisian Bläier), Middle Dutch blie, blye (“color”). Doublet of bly.

  1. inherited from *blīu✻ — “color, blee”
  2. inherited from blēo
  3. inherited from blee

Definitions

  1. Color, hue.

    • Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee,— / Toll slowly.
    • IT was a Mothering Sunday ; / The sky was clear to see / Above the white, white snowdrop, / And the crocus of golden blee.
    • The captain wonderful to see / With eyes a-change in depth and blee; / A-change, a-change for ever and aye, / Blue, and purple, and black, and gray; / And hair like the weed that finds a home / In the depth of a trail of white sea-foam.

  2. Color of the face, complexion, coloring.

  3. Consistency, form, texture.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. General resemblance, likeness

      General resemblance, likeness; appearance, aspect, look.

      • 16th c., Nicholas Grimald, The life and poems of Nicholas Grimald, Yale Studies in English, Volume 69, 1925, page 379. Meane beautie doth soone fade: therof playn hee, / Who nothing loves in woman, but her blee.

    2. Expressing disgust or trepidation.

      • Bikers […] tend to appear at the edges of the road and then zoom in front of your car. […] As you have probably found out already, one touch of these and it's time to order the wooden box. (Blee!)
      • It's a boring life being a cave man. No telly, no video and not even a Spectrum! Blee! All you can do is eat, but Brontosaurus steaks can be very tough.

    3. A surname.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA