"splog" meaning in All languages combined

See splog on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: splogs [plural]
Etymology: Blend of spam + blog. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|spam|blog}} Blend of spam + blog Head templates: {{en-noun}} splog (plural splogs)
  1. (Internet) A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Blogging, Internet Synonyms: flog, spamblog

Inflected forms

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spam",
        "3": "blog"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of spam + blog",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of spam + blog.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "splogs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "splog (plural splogs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Blogging",
          "orig": "en:Blogging",
          "parents": [
            "Social media",
            "Internet",
            "Mass media",
            "Computing",
            "Networking",
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Technology",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Internet",
          "orig": "en:Internet",
          "parents": [
            "Computing",
            "Networking",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:",
          "text": "The “b” in these words is all that remains from its ancestor, Berners-Lee’s Web, and even that slim vestige can be lost when blog blends with other words, as in vlog (a video blog) and splog (a spam blog).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam."
      ],
      "id": "en-splog-en-noun-i2WwDWMo",
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "fake",
          "fake"
        ],
        [
          "blog",
          "blog"
        ],
        [
          "link spam",
          "link spam"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet) A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "flog"
        },
        {
          "word": "spamblog"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "splog"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spam",
        "3": "blog"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of spam + blog",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of spam + blog.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "splogs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "splog (plural splogs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Blogging",
        "en:Internet"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:",
          "text": "The “b” in these words is all that remains from its ancestor, Berners-Lee’s Web, and even that slim vestige can be lost when blog blends with other words, as in vlog (a video blog) and splog (a spam blog).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "fake",
          "fake"
        ],
        [
          "blog",
          "blog"
        ],
        [
          "link spam",
          "link spam"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet) A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "flog"
    },
    {
      "word": "spamblog"
    }
  ],
  "word": "splog"
}

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