Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels. · To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim. · To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet. · To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
A loud sound. · Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance. · A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣran, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. Related to Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates German Low German blaren, blarren Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren) Saterland Frisian blärje West Frisian blearje
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