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Pronunciation varies by accent · interjection
(slang, US) Expresses negative feeling. The quality of the emotion expressed is more negative than that of blah and has a slight feeling of disgust, verging on nausea..
You bought that green station wagon? Bleah!
Reviewing my list of ickisms - yuck, yecch, bleah, ew and ick - the linguist [David McNeill] observes, "Negative words having to do with disgust seem to be embodied in the experience of expelling unwanted, possibly poisonous, materials from the mouth. […]
Use bleah when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bleah means (slang, US) Expresses negative feeling. The quality of the emotion expressed is more negative than that of blah and has a slight feeling of disgust, verging on nausea..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
You bought that green station wagon? Bleah!
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