Bleah
Origin
Possibly connected with Russian блевать (“to vomitâ€) Old Church Slavonic бльвати (“to vomitâ€), Ancient Greek φλÏω (“I'm spoutingâ€), from Proto-Indo-European *bÊ°lou-/bÊ°leu-
Full definition of bleah
Interjection
- (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)Reviewing my list of ickisms - yuck, yecch, bleah, ew and ick - the linguist 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. ...