bleurgh
/bləː/(also bleugh)
exclamation British informal
Used to express disgust: bleurgh—just opened the fridge and it smells of gone-off chicken I can handle gore and everything but show me warts? Bleurgh!...
- Flowers, chocolates, jewellery, perfume, yawn, snore, bleurgh: are typical Valentine's Day gifts beginning to feel a little bit tired?
- Bleurgh don't like mince pies!
- Just don't expect it to sound like all that overproduced semi-orchestral stuff (bleurgh) that's been on the rise.
Origin
1960s: probably imitative of the sound of gagging or retching.
- patent leather
- patent log
- patently
- patent malt
- patent medicine
- patent-monger
- patent note
- patent office
- patentor
- patent outsides
- patent right
- Patent Roll
- patent rubber
- Patent Safety Cab
- patent sail
- patent still
- patent theater
- patent theatre
- patent troll
- patent trolling
- pater
- patera
- Pater Abbas
- Pateresque
- paterfamilias