Meaning & use
blate
Shy, bashful, or lacking in self-confidence, especially in social situations.
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Too blate to ask a question in front of the class, she waited until everyone else had left.
The blate young farmhand barely spoke a word during his first week on the job.
A note on using this word
Blate is a chiefly Scottish and dialectal word, rarely used in standard modern English outside regional speech or older literature.
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