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Blate   Listen
adjective
blate  adj.  Bashful; timid; sheepish; chiefly Scottish.
Synonyms: bashful, timid, sheepish.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Blate" Quotes from Famous Books



... von of dem double-decker ferrypoats vot runs from New York to Chersey City—dem kind vot has got blate-glass vinders und looking-glasses der sthairs on," explained the German cadet. "Da ...
— The Rover Boys on the River - The Search for the Missing Houseboat • Arthur Winfield

... the General, taken aback for a moment by the easy manners of his countryman, but rejoicing in every new assurance of home, "our people are no blate." ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren

... man, mother; not that fearsome man!" pleaded Nelly, with streaming eyes and beseeching tones, her high spirit for the moment broken; her contempt gone, only her aversion and terror urging a hearing—"The lad that's blate and dull till he's braggit by his fellows, and then starker than ony carle, wild like a north-country cateran; even the haill bench o' judges would not stand ...
— Girlhood and Womanhood - The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes • Sarah Tytler



Words linked to "Blate" :   let out, backward, blat, bashful, Scotland, let loose



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