/bləʊt/, /bloʊt/
OriginPerhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”). Akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”).
- To cause to become distended.
- intransitiveTo get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- intransitiveTo become distended; to swell up.
“if a Person of a firm Conſtitution begins to bloat, and from being warm grows cold, his Fibres grow weak, Anxiety and Palpitations of the Heart are a ſign of weak Fibres”
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
“1675, John Dryden, Prologue to Circe by Dr. Davenant
Encourage him, and bloat him up with Praise”
- datedTo preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
- To increase to an excessive amount.
“In the UK, the fraction of electricity generated by nuclear plants has slid steadily downwards, from 25% in the 1990s to 16% in 2020. Of the five nuclear stations still producing power, only one will ”
- countable, uncountableDistention of the abdomen from death.
- countable, uncountablePathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
- countable, figuratively, uncountableWasteful use of space or other resources.
“Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat.”
- collective, countable, uncountableA group of hippopotamuses.
“A group of hippos is called a bloat.”
- obsoletebloated.
“Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed”
Formsbloats(present, singular, third-person) · bloating(participle, present) · bloated(participle, past) · bloated(past) · bloats(plural) · more bloat(comparative) · most bloat(superlative)