Blate vs Elate - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between blate and elate

is that blate is (scotland|northern england) bashful, sheepish while elate is elated; exultant.

to make joyful or proud.

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(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.

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(elat)

To make joyful or proud.

To lift up; raise; elevate.

(head)

elated; exultant

* Alexander Pope

O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate .

* Mrs. H. H. Jackson

Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.

(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.

* Fenton

with upper lip elate

* Sir W. Jones

And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate , / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

* (English Citations of "elate")

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