Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To become “sleepy” or internally decayed, as a pear which ripens after being picked.
- n. A soft spot in a fruit; an early stage of decay.
Wiktionary
- v. To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.
- v. To decay internally when overripe; -- said of fruit.
Etymologies
- French blettir. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The blet would slow down but may stil be supersonic thus making a sound.”
“The people of Virar-Mira Road blet believe that conducting surveys and useless studies like "Most Influencial Person"; "Most Sexiest Person" is useless and stupidity.”
“We finally get out when the elevator makes it to the ground floor, and everyone's out of the building, and after the fire department responds and checks the place, we are told that a blet or something broke in the elevator we were on, and that is what called emergency services.”
“No, not baby Stens, it is my Open-arse Orchard - it will be worth waiting for them to mature and blet.”
“Fmnc apud Dou - blet.p. 655. yenientet in iUaflrada”
Internet Archive: Glossarium manuale ad scriptores mediae et infimae Latinitatis
“Now, before the fanboys and haters get all riled up, keep in mind, the guy who draws the strip, T. Lewis, does so on his T.blet PC (last we heard,”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blet’.
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Surprising four-letter words
I imagine most of these will be Anglo-Saxon, not likely to crop up in the average day's conversation, and thus excellent for Scrabble. ("most" is too common, likewise "will" and even "crop", in an...
blet, quim, clit, buff, sire, wiki, blog, loam, waft, heft, mare, lilt and 68 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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Much loved words
ungent, ineffable, curmudgeon, wether, bilk, nasaaq, quince, medlar, anencephalic, riddling grate, fetlock, synallagmatic and 24 more...
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Courtesy of Josefa
A selection of words appearing in Mrs Byrne's dictionary of unusual, obscure, and preposterous words (1994 edition).
trollylolly, pozzy-wallah, kittly-benders, jimberjaw, lollybanger, randle, aval, perjinkities, brontophobia, mumruffin, rotche, atmatertera and 29 more...
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Bionomenclature
phloem, lithops, ericaceous, albido, tarn, bosque, mirage, skerry, weir, kingfisher, effluvia, potherb and 48 more...
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higher state of mind words
Kaif
Tweets
Looking for tweets for blet.
bilby "Most varieties of quince are too hard, astringent and sour to eat raw unless bletted (softened by frost and subsequent decay)."
- Wikipedia quince page Mar 25, 2013
chained_bear Oh, I meant just editing the comment, copying it, then deleting the comment there, and pasting it here. See? I'm too lazy. (P.S. you delete comments by editing them, resubmitting, and then the delete link appears.) Dec 22, 2008
BrainyBabe How do you move anything?!? Dec 22, 2008
chained_bear See also info on bletted, which I added before I realized this was also already entered on Wordie. And now, I'm too lazy to move it. So suffah. Dec 22, 2008