BLATE

bashful, blate

(adjective) disposed to avoid notice; “they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren’t bashful about letting anybody know it”; (‘blate’ is a Scottish term for bashful)

bleat, blate, blat, baa

(verb) cry plaintively; “The lambs were bleating”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Adjective

blate (comparative blater, superlative blatest)

(Scotland, Northern England) Bashful, sheepish.

(Scotland, Northern England) Dull, stupid.

Etymology 2

Verb

blate (third-person singular simple present blates, present participle blating, simple past and past participle blated)

Archaic form of bleat.

Anagrams

• ablet, bleat, table

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