Noun: blat
Sample Sentences
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"Of course I warned off the dicks and the FBI, but they're madder'n hell and we've got to get out of town at once. It'll miss the mornings but it'll be splashed all over the afternoon blatts and radio and TV'll have it." [1954, Ian Fleming, “True or False?”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 85:]
Nouns inflected like blat
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
Borrowed from German Blatt (“newspaper”). Doublet of blade. See: German Nouns '
Blatt'.