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单词 bleary
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blearyn.

Brit. /ˈblɪəri/, U.S. /ˈblɪri/
Origin: Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: Scots blearie.
Etymology: Perhaps a specific use of Scots blearie, bleirie gruel made with oatmeal and buttermilk (although this is apparently first attested slightly later: 1825) < bleirie (adjective) watery, thin, weak (1808), perhaps a transferred use of bleary adj.
rare.
(See quot. 1812.)
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > food made with flour > [noun] > flour and water
bleary1812
lilipi1860
1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 65 Boiling a bleary, which was no other than flour and water.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

blearyadj.

Brit. /ˈblɪəri/, U.S. /ˈblɪri/
Etymology: < blear adj. (or ? n.) + -y suffix1. In the 14th cent. quot. all manuscripts save one read blered , -id , -yd : so that blery is of slight authority; but compare bleariness n.
More or less blear of the eyes.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > bleary
bleared1362
bleary1393
blear1398
swimming1697
muggy1824
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 198 He was bytelbrowed and baberlupped · with two blery eyen.
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion ii. 24 The glutinous quality of that blearie humour.
1770 J. Armstrong Imitations Shaks. (1859) 82 He with bleary eye Blazons his own disgrace.
1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 117 The comers were cheery, the gangers were blearie.
1830 Blackwood's Mag. 27 436 His little red bleary eyes.

Compounds

bleary-eyed adj. = blear-eyed adj. 1.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > bleary > having bleary eyes
blear-eyed1382
bleared1500
bleary-eyed1927
1927 New Republic 9 Mar. 71.
1930 ‘Sapper’ Finger of Fate 261 An unshaven, bleary-eyed man.
1957 R. Campbell Portugal 33 The weirdest lot of bleary-eyed thugs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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