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Blea vs Bleah - What's the difference?

blea | bleah |

As a noun blea

is the part of a tree that lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

As an interjection bleah is

(slang|us) expresses negative feeling the quality of the emotion expressed is more negative than that of 'blah' and has a slight feeling of disgust, verging on nausea.

blea

English

Noun

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  • The part of a tree that lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.
  • * 1814 , Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany
    • Authors differ greatly in opinion concerning the formation of the blea . Linnaeus imagined it was formed by the bark. But it is certain that the whole of the bark does not give birth to the blea

    bleah

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (slang, US) Expresses negative feeling. The quality of the emotion expressed is more negative than that of 'blah' and has a slight feeling of disgust, verging on nausea.
  • * ''You bought that green station wagon? Bleah !
  • * 2005 , William Safire, The Ick Factor'' (in ''The New York Times , 25 September 2005)
    • Reviewing my list of ickisms - yuck'', ''yecch'', ''bleah'' , ''ew'' and ''ick - the linguist [David McNeill] observes, "Negative words having to do with disgust seem to be embodied in the experience of expelling unwanted, possibly poisonous, materials from the mouth.

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