Noun: bloat
| Singular | bloat |
| Plural | bloats |
Sample Sentences
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Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat.
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A group of hippos is called a bloat. [2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC:]
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It was a massive bloat of hippopotamus making a beeline right for them. Bakvissie didn't have to be told twice, he scrambled over Shimbaka's head and straight up into the tree so fast that Shimbaka wasn't even sure it was Bakvissie. The bloat descended rapidly and Shimbaka only had seconds to swing up into the tree with Bakvissie. With portly monsters now surrounding them, Togo recalled Kiku's advice, "it is best to avoid these beasts while in water, as they can be rather fiery." Nevertheless, these hippos were on land — what is setting them off? It would have been much more helpful if Kiku told them, "Hey, don't sit with your back to a bloat of Hippos - you could get trampled." However, here they were, up a tree. [2016, David Chandler, Shaman of New York, page 200:]
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One evening I crawled into the pup tent I was sharing with John Yost on a beach pockmarked with hoofprints across from a bloat of hippos blowing their tubas. [2023, Richard Bangs, The Art of Living Dangerously: True Stories from a Life on the Edge, Globe Pequot, page 109:]
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They thought about pulling ashore to camp, however bloats of hippos, teams of crocks, and swarms of mozzies changed their minds. [2026, Santiago Dizon, Joanne and the Headhunters:]
Nouns inflected like bloat
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”). Akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”). See: Middle English Nouns '
blot', Old Norse Nouns '
blautr', Dutch Nouns '
bloot'.