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blet

English edit

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French blettir, coined by John Lindley.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /blɛt/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Verb edit

blet (third-person singular simple present blets, present participle bletting, simple past and past participle bletted)

  1. To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.

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  1. ^ John Lindley (1835) Introduction to Botany, page 296:
    After the period of ripeness, most fleshy fruits undergo a new kind of alteration; their flesh either rots or blets. […] May I be forgiven for coining a word to express that peculiar bruised appearance in some fruits, called blessi [sic] by the French, for which we have no equivalent English expression ?

    Emphasis and footnote in original, and though written as blessi, the French word for bletted is blette, and Lindley coined “blet”, suggesting an error in the text.

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin blitum, from Ancient Greek βλίτον (blíton).

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Noun edit

blet m (plural blets)

  1. goosefoot

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Adjective edit

blet (feminine blette, masculine plural blets, feminine plural blettes)

  1. overripe

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Etymology edit

From russian Russian блядь (bljadʹ)

Interjection edit

blet

  1. (vulgar) used as filler or intensifier
    ką tu padarei blet
    What the fuck did you do?
    Žinojau, blet! Žinojau!
    I fucking knew this!

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Inherited from Early Medieval Latin bladum.

Noun edit

blet oblique singular, m (oblique plural blez or bletz, nominative singular blez or bletz, nominative plural blet)

  1. wheat, corn

Descendants edit

  • French: blé
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