blee
Pronunciation Noun

blee

  1. (rare, chiefly, poetic) colour#Noun|Colour, hue. [from 9th to early 17th c.]
    • 1893, "A Story of Mothering Sunday.", in The Sunday at Home, vol. 40, Religious Tract Society, page 381.
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    • 1896, Emily Henrietta Hickey, "The Ship from Tirnanoge", in Poems by Emily Hickley, page 48.
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    • 1913, Francis Thompson, "Stolen Fruit of Eden-Tree (‘The Schoolmaster for God’)", in Brigid M. Boardman (ed.), The Poems of Francis Thompson: A New Edition, Continuum, 2001, lines 59 to 64.
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  2. (archaic) Colour of the face#Noun|face, complexion, colouring. [from 9th to early 17th c.]
    • "The Felon Sow of Rokeby and the Freers of Richmond", in Christopher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York, Thomas Bowman (publ., 1821, appendix, cvii.
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    • "The Gay Goss-hawk", The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott: first series, containing Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Sir Tristrem, and Dramatic Pieces, Baudry's European Library (publ.), 1838, page 189 (glossed as “bloom”).
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    • 1927, P. Geyl (tr.), The Tale of Beatrice, Martinus Nijhoff (publ.), page 5.
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  3. (archaic) Consistency, form#Noun|form, texture#Noun|texture. [from 9th to early 17th c.]
  4. (East Anglia) 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.
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Synonyms Related terms Interjection
  1. (informal) Expressing disgust or trepidation.
    • 1988, Sinclair User (issue 79)
      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!)
    • 1991, Nick Roberts, Cavemania (video game review) in Crash (issue 87, page 47)
      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.



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