bloat
English
/bləʊt/, /bloʊt/
verb
Definitions
- to cause to become distended.
- (intransitive) (veterinary medicine) to get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- (intransitive) to become distended; to swell up.
- to fill with vanity or conceit.
- to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English blot (spot, blot, blemish, stain) derived from Old Norse blautr (wet, weak, soft, afraid, timid).
Origin
Old Norse
blautr
Gloss
wet, weak, soft, afraid, timid
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antibloat English
- bloatation English
- bloater English
- bloatsome English
- bloatware English
- bloaty English
- blot English
- debloat English
- unbloat English
- Blöße German
- bloß German
- blöd German
- bloot Dutch, Flemish
- blootje Dutch, Flemish
- blootleggen Dutch, Flemish
- blootstellen Dutch, Flemish
- blootsvoets Dutch, Flemish
- blootvoets Dutch, Flemish
- bloterik Dutch, Flemish
- puitebloot Dutch, Flemish
- bløt Norwegian Bokmål
- *blautaz Proto-Germanic
- ブロートウェア Japanese
- blaut Norwegian Nynorsk
- blot Middle English
- blautleikr Old Norse
- blautr Old Norse
- blød Danish
- blautur Icelandic
- bloot Middle Dutch
- bleytur Faroese
- bloß Middle High German
- bløter Old Swedish
- bløter, blø̄ter Old Swedish
- blaut Westrobothnian
- blós Kashubian