bloat
noun
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L20966 on Wikidata ↗verb
- inflate, swelling
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bləʊt/ / /bloʊt/
adj
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”). Akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”).
- bloated.
“Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed”
noun
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”). Akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”).
- Distention of the abdomen from death.
- Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
- Wasteful use of space or other resources.
“Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat.”
- A worthless, dissipated fellow.
- A group of hippopotamuses.
“A group of hippos is called a bloat.”
verb
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”). Akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”).
- To cause to become distended.
- To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- To become distended; to swell up.
“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”
- To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
“bloated herring”
- To increase to an excessive amount.
“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.”