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blat

[ blat ]

verb (used without object)

blatted, blatting.
  1. to make a loud or raucous noise.


verb (used with object)

blatted, blatting.
  1. to utter loudly and indiscreetly; blurt.

blat

/ æ /

verb

  1. intr to cry out or bleat like a sheep
  2. tr to utter indiscreetly in a loud voice
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of blat1

1840–50; perhaps expressive variant of bleat; blate 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of blat1

C19: of imitative origin
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But a blatting voice butted in, and it was not royalty.

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Even the people he loved most besides her—his parents and Nurse Beverly—were just background noise, occasional blats and blurps, while Josie was the symphony that sang through his every waking moment.

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We play the piece again, and when the school heaters stop banging and all the toots and random blats come together, it sounds all right.

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The Sounders were jolted back into MLS play with an early ping and blat of the ball off the goal post and cross bar Saturday.

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In one early poem, he asked: “ definition of beauty can exclude / The MV Agusta racing 500-3, / From the land of Donatello, with blatting megaphones?”

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