blat

Significado (inglés)

Verb

1. To cry, as a calf or sheep; bleat.
2. To make a senseless noise.
3. To talk inconsiderately; blab.
4. To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.
5. To utter loudly or foolishly; blurt.

Noun

The Soviet system of connections and social relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).

Sinónimos

baa

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Pronunciado como (IPA)

/blæt/

Etimoloxía (inglés)

Imitative. First attested in 1846 in the intransitive sense of "bleat". Compare English bleat, Old English blǣtan (“to bleat”).