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Bleah vs Blear - What's the difference?

bleah | blear |

As an interjection bleah

is 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.

As an adjective blear is

dim, unclear from water or rheum.

As a verb blear is

to make blurred or dim, especially the eyes.

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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    blear

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of eyes or vision) dim, unclear from water or rheum.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin.
  • * 1981 , John Gardner, Freddy's Book , Abacus 1982, p. 74:
    • The Devil, now disguised as a half-wit peasant to Lars-Goren's left, stood grinning, his blear eyes glittering.
  • Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
  • * Milton
    • Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion.

    See also

    * bleary

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make blurred or dim, especially the eyes.

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