bloat

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  1. transitive verb To cause to swell up or inflate, as with liquid or gas.
  2. transitive verb To cure (fish) by soaking in brine and half-drying in smoke.
  3. intransitive verb To become swollen or inflated: "Government had bloated out of control” (Lance Morrow).
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  • He did appear to be normal again; certainly the bloat was gone. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
  • Kate Moss and her bloat were in Paris doing a photo shoot for Yves Saint Lauren when her nipple threatened to expose itself. —  The Blemish
  • I still have to collate the feed of bloat, the roll of bloat, and the blogs of those I follow on Twitter and Facebook into a unified mess, so I'll get there eventually. —  No Runny Eggs
  • I would much rather have the potential for config file "bloat", where I can remove it, rather than the certainty of UI bloat (in the case of uninstalling extensions), which would be a result of that bug fix.
  • Significantly less bloat, and Manish's comment was spot on about the attitude of using what's more common. andrewbares on 05 Apr 2009 - 23: 49 waruikoohii on 05 Apr 2009 - 01: 37 —  Neowin.net / All
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. From Middle English blout, soft, puffed, from Old Norse blautr, soft, soaked; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also blote, from Middle English blote (uncertain), possibly from Anglo-Saxon blāt, pale, livid (see blate), but prob. a variant or parallel form of bloute (see bloat) = Icelandic blautr, soaked, = Swedish blöt = Danish blöd, soft, = Norwegian blaut, soft, wet; cf. Icelandic blautr fiskr, fresh (soft) fish, opposed to hardhr fiskr, dried (hard) fish, = Swedish blötfisk, soaked fish, = Norwegian blotfisk; Icelandic blotna = Swedish blötna = Norwegian blotna, to soften. See blate and bloater, and cf. bloat.
  2. apparently from bloat, a.
  3. Earlier blowt (as orig. in the passage cited from Shakspere, where bloat is an 18th century emendation, though it occurs elsewhere in 17th century), blowte, bloute, prob. from Icelandic blautr = Swedish blöt, soft, etc.: see bloat, and cf. blate. The word is now regarded as past participle of bloat, v.
  4. from bloat, a.
 

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