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English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?p

Noun

bleep (countable and uncountable, plural bleeps)

1. A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
3. (euphemistic) Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.

   What the bleep are you doing?

4. (music, slang, uncountable) A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
   • 2005, "Jennie Kermode", What is gothic? (on newsgroup alt.gothic)

     See, there are a huge number of people in this city who look like goths and talk the talk and claim to enjoy much of the same music I do, so it confuses me somewhat that the clubs all play bleep. I would have thought there would be enough people to make something else work.

   • 2005, "oldgoth", Theaving^[sic] Goths (on newsgroup uk.people.gothic)

     A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths. All you have to do is look. At InsanitoriuM we have a large, young, crowd that would up and leave if we started playing bleep at them, and we're not alone.

Translations

Verb

bleep (third-person singular simple present bleeps, present participle bleeping, simple past and past participle bleeped)

1. (intransitive) To emit one or more bleeps.

   The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.

2. (transitive) To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.

   Synonym: blip

Derived terms

• bleeper
• bleep out
• bleepy

Translations

Anagrams

• plebe

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /bli?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Etymology 1

From Middle English blee, ble (“colour, hue”), from Old English bl?o, bleoh (“colour, hue; complexion, form, blue”), from Proto-West Germanic *bl?u (“colour, blee; glad, light”). Cognate with Scots ble, blee, blie (“colour, complexion”), Old Frisian bl?, blie (“colour, hue; complexion”) (whence North Frisian bläy), Old Saxon bl? (“colour, hue; complexion”), Old High German bl?o(h) (“colour, hue”), bl?o (“metallic lead”) (modern German Blei), Danish bly (“lead”), Icelandic blý (“lead”). Perhaps related to Old English bl?þe (“joyous”) (whence blithe). See also bly.

Noun

blee (countable and uncountable, plural blees)

1. (rare, chiefly poetic) Colour, hue. [from 9th to early 17th c.]
   • 1893, "A Story of Mothering Sunday.", in The Sunday at Home, vol. 40, Religious Tract Society, page 381.

   • 1896, Emily Henrietta Hickey, "The Ship from Tirnanoge", in Poems by Emily Hickley, page 48.

   • 1913, Francis Thompson, "Stolen Fruit of Eden-Tree (‘The Schoolmaster for God’)", in Brigid M. Boardman (ed.), The Poems of Francis Thompson: A New Edition, Continuum, 2001, lines 59 to 64.
2. (archaic) Colour of the face, complexion, colouring. [from 9th to early 17th c.]
   • "The Felon Sow of Rokeby and the Freers of Richmond", in Christopher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York, Thomas Bowman (publ., 1821, appendix, cvii.

   • "The Gay Goss-hawk", The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott: first series, containing Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Sir Tristrem, and Dramatic Pieces, Baudry's European Library (publ.), 1838, page 189 (glossed as “bloom”).

   • 1927, P. Geyl (tr.), The Tale of Beatrice, Martinus Nijhoff (publ.), page 5.

3. (archaic) Consistency, form, texture. [from 9th to early 17th c.]
4. (East Anglia) General resemblance, likeness; appearance, aspect, look.
   • 16th c., Nicholas Grimald, The life and poems of Nicholas Grimald, Yale Studies in English, Volume 69, 1925, page 379.

Synonyms

• color, colour
• hue
• complexion

Related terms

• bly

Translations

Etymology 2

Associated with Smash Hits magazine, where it may have originated.

Interjection

blee

1. (informal) Expressing disgust or trepidation.
   • 1988, Sinclair User (issue 79)

     Bikers […] tend to appear at the edges of the road and then zoom in front of your car. […] As you have probably found out already, one touch of these and it's time to order the wooden box. (Blee!)

   • 1991, Nick Roberts, Cavemania (video game review) in Crash (issue 87, page 47)

     It's a boring life being a cave man. No telly, no video and not even a Spectrum! Blee! All you can do is eat, but Brontosaurus steaks can be very tough.

Anagrams

• Ebel, Eble, Elbe, beel, bélé

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Noun

blee

1. night