blate

• I like you little over-blate, Gilian, but I like you less over-bold. —  Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
• Do not be too blate,[25 and for God's sake do not try to be too forward; nothing sets you worse. —  David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona
• Five punds for four years; my word, yir no blate (modest). —  Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
• He's "no blate," as they used to say in Scotland, and made himself quite at home to-night. —  Wives and Daughters
• But gin that wasna a quean, ye canna deny but she luikit unco like ane, and no a blate (bashful) ane eyther Gin he was a loon, he wadna luik like a blate lass, ony gait, Betty. —  Robert Falconer

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