See blah in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Representing the sound of vomiting."
],
"links": [
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"vomiting",
"vomiting#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bleah"
},
{
"word": "blech"
},
{
"word": "bleh"
}
]
}
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},
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"ipa": "/bla/"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "expression of mild frustration",
"word": "plääh"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "imitative of meaningless talk",
"word": "pälä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "imitative of meaningless talk",
"word": "blaa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "imitative of meaningless talk",
"word": "blá"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blà-blà-blá",
"sense": "imitative of meaningless talk",
"word": "бла̀-бла̀-бла́"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the sound of vomiting",
"word": "yök"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the sound of vomiting",
"word": "bluaa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the sound of vomiting",
"word": "bluaaa"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"blah"
],
"word": "blah"
}
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{
"word": "blahg"
}
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"2": "",
"3": "βαρ-βαρ",
"t": "unintelligible sounds"
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"4": "",
"5": "bored, indifferent"
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"name": "uder"
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"2": "blues",
"3": "blah",
"alt1": "the blues",
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"expansion": "blend of the blues + blah (adjective)",
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"etymology_text": "* Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably imitative or echoic in origin. Compare Ancient Greek βαρ-βαρ (bar-bar, “unintelligible sounds”)\n* Adjective sense “bland, dull” (1919), perhaps influenced by French blasé (“bored, indifferent”).\n* The blahs (“boredom, mild depression”) first attested 1969; probably a blend of the blues + blah (adjective).\n* Also may be connected with bleat",
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"form": "blahs",
"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "blahing",
"tags": [
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"present"
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{
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"word": "barbarian"
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"word": "rhubarb"
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123,
130
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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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71
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"ref": "2015 August 29, Tony Blair, “Jeremy Corbyn’s politics are fantasy – just like Alice in Wonderland”, in 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": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To utter idle, meaningless talk."
],
"links": [
[
"utter",
"utter"
],
[
"idle",
"idle"
],
[
"meaningless",
"meaningless"
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"(intransitive) To utter idle, meaningless talk."
],
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}
],
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"tags": [
"UK"
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},
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{
"ipa": "/bla/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"blah"
],
"word": "blah"
}
Download raw JSONL data for blah meaning in English (26.8kB)
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: informal, in the plural, the blahs",
"path": [
"blah"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "blah",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: informal, in the plural, the blahs",
"path": [
"blah"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "blah",
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}
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