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"text": "Well, the new restaurant seems nice, but their menu is a little blah."
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"text": "I decided to go exercise rather than sit around all day feeling blah."
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"(When spoken repeatedly, often three times in succession: blah blah blah!) Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant."
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"ref": "2014, Shelagh Stephenson, Ancient Lights, page 28",
"text": "Ooh, I feel so guilty, I've got far too much money — […] So give it away, endow a charitable foundation, burn it, but stop blahing on about it […]",
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"3": "the blues"
},
"expansion": "the blues",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bleat"
},
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}
],
"etymology_text": "* Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably imitative or echoic in origin. Compare Greek \"barbarbar” ‘unintelligible sounds’ (Grillo 1989:174).\n* Adjective sense “bland, dull” (1919), perhaps influenced by French blasé (“bored, indifferent”).\n* The blahs (“boredom, mild depression”) first attested 1969; extension of adjective sense and influenced by term the blues.\n* Also may be connected with bleat\nGRILLO, R.D. 1989. Dominant languages: Language and hierarchy in Britain and France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blahs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blahing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blahed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "blahed",
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"past"
]
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "barbarian"
},
{
"word": "rhubarb"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2014, Shelagh Stephenson, Ancient Lights, page 28",
"text": "Ooh, I feel so guilty, I've got far too much money — […] So give it away, endow a charitable foundation, burn it, but stop blahing on about it […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015 August 29, Tony Blair, The Guardian",
"text": "Someone else said to me: “If you’re writing something again, don’t blah on about winning elections; it really offends them.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To utter idle, meaningless talk."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To utter idle, meaningless talk."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/blɑː/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bla/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-blah.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-blah.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-blah.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-blah.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-blah.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bla"
},
{
"word": "blaa"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"blah"
],
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"Puoc nouns",
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{
"glosses": [
"bright"
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"bright"
]
]
}
],
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"Puoc adjectives",
"Puoc entries with incorrect language header",
"Puoc lemmas",
"Puoc nouns",
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"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
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"moon",
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]
]
}
],
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