blee

Etymology 1
From, , from , , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, , 🇨🇬, (whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬,. .

Noun

 * 1)  Color, hue.
 * 2) * 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.
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 * 1) * 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.
 * "en"
 * "en"

- The fruit thereof is fair and fine, / And golden of its blee, / That well the Son of God might think / It came of Paradise—tree, / Nor deem how its root with cold Pit-fire / Is suckled evilly.


 * 1)  Color of the face, complexion, coloring.
 * 2) * "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.
 * "en"
 * "en"

- The sew she would not Latin heare, / But rudely rushed at the Frear, / That he blinked all his blee ; / And when she would have taken her hold, / The Fryar leaped as Jesus wold, / And bealed him with a tree.


 * 1) * "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”).
 * "en"

- And pale, pale grew her rosy cheeck, / That was sae bright of blee,$4$ / And she seem'd to be as surely dead / As any one could be.


 * 1) * 1927, P. Geyl (tr.), The Tale of Beatrice, Martinus Nijhoff (publ.), page 5.
 * "en"
 * "en"

- So there they sat a long long time, / Nor could I tell you in my rhyme / How oft their cheeks did change their blee.


 * 1)  Consistency, form, texture.
 * 2)  General resemblance, likeness; appearance, aspect, look.
 * 3) * 16th c., Nicholas Grimald, The life and poems of Nicholas Grimald, Yale Studies in English, Volume 69, 1925, page 379.
 * "en"
 * "en"

- Meane beautie doth soone fade: therof playn hee, / Who nothing loves in woman, but her blee.



Etymology 2
Associated with  magazine, where it may have originated.

Interjection

 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.

Noun

 * 1) night