Blate

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Naked; bare.
  • To babble or prate about.
  • Pale; ghastly.
  • Dull; spiritless; stupid.
  • Blunt; curt.
  • Bashful; diffident.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb. to of sheep, goats, or calves.
  • adjective. bashful; timid; sheepish; -- chiefly Scottish.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Bashful, sheepish.
  • adjective. Dull, stupid.
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  • verb. cry plaintively
  • adjective. disposed to avoid notice
  • Word Usage
    "But at no time was the genial little poet "blate," as he would himself have said."
    Equivalent
    backward  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    emit  let loose  let out  utter  
    Same Context
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    baa  bashful  blat  bleat  chatter