bloat
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Etymology
Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”).[1] Akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”).[2]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bləʊt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /bloʊt/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊt
Verb
bloat (third-person singular simple present bloats, present participle bloating, simple past and past participle bloated)
- To cause to become distended.
- (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
- 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], →OCLC:
- 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
- 1675, John Dryden, Prologue to Circe by Dr. Davenant
- (dated) To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
- bloated herring
- To increase to an excessive amount.
- December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
- 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 run beyond 2028. Hinkley Point C, the first new nuclear plant in a generation, is being built in Somerset, but its cost has bloated to more than £25bn.
Translations
to cause to become distended
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to get an overdistended rumen
to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc
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Noun
bloat (countable and uncountable, plural bloats)
- Distention of the abdomen from death.
- (veterinary medicine) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
- (figurative) Wasteful use of space or other resources.
- Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat.
- (derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
Translations
overdistension of rumen
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Adjective
bloat (comparative more bloat, superlative most bloat)
- (obsolete) bloated.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 3, scene 4: The Queen's Closet:
- Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed
Derived terms
References
- “bloat”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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