A Scottish or dialectal variant spelling of 'bleath' or 'blithe', meaning cheerful, carefree, or happy.
Variant of Old English 'blithe' (happy, kind). Scottish English preserved this spelling with slight variation, showing how regional dialects kept older English forms alive.
This is a ghost-word in many dictionaries—it might appear in Scottish texts but represents shifting between 'blithe' and regional pronunciations. Language variations like this show how Scotland, England, and other regions developed differently even as they shared roots!
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