(slang,US) Expresses negative feeling. The quality of theemotion expressed is more negative than that ofblah and has a slight feeling ofdisgust, verging onnausea.
You bought that green station wagon?Bleah!
2005 September 25, William Safire, “The Ick Factor”, inThe New York Times:
Reviewing my list of ickisms -yuck,yecch,bleah,ew andick - the linguist [David McNeill] observes, "Negative words having to do with disgust seem to be embodied in the experience of expelling unwanted, possibly poisonous, materials from the mouth.[…]
