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Adjective: blate  bleyt
  1. Disposed to avoid notice
    "'blate' is a Scottish term for bashful";
    - bashful
Verb: blate  bleyt
  1. Cry plaintively
    "The lambs were blating";
    - bleat, blat [N. Amer, informal], baa

Derived forms: blates, blated, blating

See also: backward

Type of: emit, let loose, let out, utter

Encyclopedia: Blate