Bleah vs Bleargh - What's the difference?
bleah | bleargh | see also |
(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)
Bleah is a see also of bleargh.
As interjections the difference between bleah and bleargh
is that 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 while bleargh is .bleah
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- 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.