Blate is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 86 anagrams from letters in blate (abelt).
before 1000; Old English blāt livid, pallid, (of a sound) low (not found in ME)
We're no blate at askin' the lawin', although some folk are unco' slow at payin' o't. It's just four-and-six.
He's 'no blate,' as they used to say in Scotland, and made himself quite at home to-night.
But at no time was the genial little poet "blate," as he would himself have said.
But the compliment is like the chariot-wheels o Pharaoh, sae dreigh o drawing, that I canna afford to be blate wi you ony langer.
Grant was by no means "blate" in availing himself of the hint, but the Shaws were tough fighters.
"Faith, and you are not blate," said she whimsically, but indifferent to remove herself from a grasp so innocent.
But gin that wasna a quean, ye canna deny but she luikit unco like ane, and no a blate (bashful) ane eyther.'
"You're too blate, Colin," he said, and then he put his arm through his wife's and gave her a squeeze to take her into his joke.
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