Blate vs Ablate - What's the difference?
blate | ablate |
(Scotland, Northern England) Bashful, sheepish.
*1934 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Grey Granite'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 491:
*:You'd say Not them; fine legs'', and Ma struggling into her blouse would say ''You're no blate . Who told you they're fine?
(Scotland, Northern England) Dull, stupid.
To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature.
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