Expresses negative feeling. The quality of the emotion expressed is more negative than that of blah and has a slight feeling of disgust, verging on nausea.
Origin
Possibly connected with Proto-Slavic *bľьvati ("to vomit") (Russian блева́ть, Old Church Slavonic бльвати), Ancient Greek φλύω ("I'm spouting"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-
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