bleah

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interjection

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!”

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Meanings

interjection
  1. USslangExpresses 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!

    1 more example

    Reviewing my list of ickisms - yuck, yecch, bleah, ew and ick - the linguist [David 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. […]

    2005 September 25, William Safire, “The Ick Factor”, in The New York Times

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
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Origin

Onomatopoeic.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

bleah. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bleah

MLA

“bleah.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bleah. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bleah,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bleah.

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