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blab, blabber, blabberin, blabs, bleb, blebber, blebberin, blob,
blab [blab, blɛb, bleb, bləib, blib, S. bleb]
n. A gurgling noise, a quantity of drink. One who talks indiscreetly.
pl. blabs
v. To make a gurgling noise, to drink much and frequently.
blabber
n. Idle or foolish talk.
v. To speak inarticulately, babble.
Compounds and phrases etc.
blabberin: Drunk.
blaack, blaackie, blaackit, blaackness, blaak, blaakie, blaakit, blaakness, black, blacken, blackenin, blackening, blackie, blackin, blackit, blackness, blacknin, blackning, blacks, blaick, blaickit, blaickness, blaik, blaiken, blaikenin, blaikie, blaikit, blaikness, blaiks, blak, blake, blaked, blakeness, blaket, blakit, blakkit, blakknen, blakness, blaks, bleck, blecked, blecken, bleckie, bleckin, bleckit, bleckness, blecknin, blecks, blek, blekin, blekit, blekness, pick-black, pit-black,
black [blak, blɔk, blɛk]
n. The colour black. Smut in plants. A scoundrel.
pl. blacks Mourning clothes.
adv. Completely, dead. Intensely, grossly, to the utmost pitch.
adj. Of the colour black. Extreme, overpowering or downright in a bad sense.
v. To black(en). To disfigure, make dirty. To become, grow black. To defame.
pt. pp. blackit
blacken
v. To blacken. To polish shoes etc.
Compounds and phrases etc.
blackenin [ˈblak(ə)nɪn, ˈblɔknɪn, ˈblɛknɪn]: Bootpolish. A pre-marriage ritual of humiliation.
(grund) blackie The blackbird Turdus merula.
blackin: Blacking.
blackness: Blackness.
ditch blackie: SEC. The ring ouzel Turdus torquatus.
heather blackie: S. EC. SN. MN. The ring-ousel Turdus torquatus.
muir blackbird: SW. The ring-ousel Turdus torquatus.
pick-black: Pitch-dark, pitch black.
pit-black: As dark as a pit, as dark as pitch.
Blackburn, Bleckburn,
Blackburn [ˈblakbʌrn, ˈblegbʌrn]
pn. Blackburn.
blackbide, blackboid, blackboyd, black-boyd, blackbyd, blackbyde, black-byde, boid, boyd,
blackbyde [ˈblakbəid, ˈblɔk-, ˈblɛk-]
n. S. SW. WC. EC. Blackberry fruit Rubus fruticosus.
Blackadder, Blackedder, Blacketter,
Blackedder [ˈbleketər]
pn. Blackadder (Borders).
Blackfuird, Blackfurd,
Blackfuird [ˈblakfərd]
pn. Blackford (Edinburgh).
blackgaird, blaegart, blageerd, blagyird, bleckgaird,
blackgaird [n. ˈblageːrd, ˈblagjɪrt, ˈblagjɪrd, v. bləˈgeːrd]
n. A blackguard.
v. To revile in scurrilous terms. To behave in a riotous fashion.
blackjack,
blackjack [ˈblakdʒak, -dʒek, -dʒɛk, ˈblɔk-, ˈblɛk-]
n. EC. The coalfish Pollachius virens.
Blackrig, Blackrigg,
Blackrig [ˈblakrɪg]
pn. Blackridge (West Lothian).
Blackshiels,
Blackshiels [blakʃilz]
pn. Blackshiels (Midlothian).
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