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blee¹

  • /bliː/ US, UK

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

From Middle English blee, ble, from Old English blēo, bleoh (“color, hue; complexion, form”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“color, blee”).

Cognate with Scots ble, blee, blie (“color, complexion”), Old Frisian blī, blie (“color, hue; complexion”) (whence North Frisian bläy, Saterland Frisian Bläier), Middle Dutch blie, blye (“color”). Doublet of bly.

noun blees

  1. countable, poetic, uncountable Color, hue. Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee,— / Toll slowly.
  2. archaic, countable, uncountable Color of the face, complexion, coloring. "The Felon Sow of Rokeby and the Freers of Richmond", in Christopher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York, Thomas Bowman (publ., 1821, appendix, cvii. The sew she would not Latin heare, / But rudely rushed at the Frear, / That he blinked all his blee ; / And when she would have t
  3. archaic, countable, uncountable Consistency, form, texture. I am thrilled half cosmically through by cryptophantic surgings / Till the rhythmic hills roar silent through a spongious kind of blee: / And earth's soul yawns disembowelled of her pancreatic organs, / Like a madrepore if mesmerized, in rapt catalepsy.
  4. East Anglia, countable, uncountable General resemblance, likeness; appearance, aspect, look. 16th c., Nicholas Grimald, The life and poems of Nicholas Grimald, Yale Studies in English, Volume 69, 1925, page 379. Meane beautie doth soone fade: therof playn hee, / Who nothing loves in woman, but her blee.

Similar: color, colour, hue, complexion

blee²

  • /bliː/ US, UK

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

Associated with Smash Hits magazine, where it may have originated.

interjection

  1. informal Expressing disgust or trepidation. Bikers […] tend to appear at the edges of the road and then zoom in front of your car. […] As you have probably found out already, one touch of these and it's time to order the wooden box. (Blee!)

Blee³

Where it comes from

From the Cornish and Irish surname, variant of Bligh.

proper noun Blees

  1. A surname.

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