"blurb" meaning in English

See blurb in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /blɝ(ː)b/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-blurb.wav Forms: blurbs [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b Etymology: Coined by American humorist Gelett Burgess in 1907 on a dust jacket at a trade association dinner in 1907. The dust jacket said “YES, this is a “BLURB”!” and featured a (fictitious) “Miss Belinda Blurb” shown calling out, described as “in the act of blurbing”. Etymology templates: {{coinage|en|Gelett Burgess|in=1907|nat=American|nobycat=1|occ=humorist}} Coined by American humorist Gelett Burgess in 1907 Head templates: {{en-noun}} blurb (plural blurbs)
  1. A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes. Derived forms: blurbification, blurbist Translations (a short description of a book, film, or other work): blakerteks (Afrikaans), flapteks (Afrikaans), تَقْرِيظ (taqrīẓ) [masculine] (Arabic), sinopsi [feminine] (Catalan), 大作廣告 (Chinese Mandarin), 大作广告 (dàzuò guǎnggào) (Chinese Mandarin), flaptekst (Dutch), takakansiteksti (Finnish), mainosteksti (Finnish), quatrième de couverture [feminine] (French), Klappentext [masculine] (German), Einbandtext [masculine] (German), Umschlagtext [masculine] (German), fülszöveg (english: books) (Hungarian), fascetta pubblicitaria [feminine] (Italian), 宣伝文 (sendenbun) (alt: せんでんぶん) (Japanese), brødtekst [masculine] (Norwegian), تقریظ (taqriz) (Persian), blurb [masculine] (Polish), sinopse (Portuguese), resumo (Portuguese), síntese (Portuguese), аннота́ция (annotácija) (alt: рекла́мная) [feminine] (Russian), рекла́ма (rekláma) (alt: изда́тельская) [feminine] (Russian), sinopsis (Spanish), resumen (Spanish), síntesis (Spanish), anmälan [common-gender] (Swedish), baksidestext (Swedish), broliant [masculine] (Welsh)
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Verb

IPA: /blɝ(ː)b/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-blurb.wav Forms: blurbs [present, singular, third-person], blurbing [participle, present], blurbed [participle, past], blurbed [past]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b Etymology: Coined by American humorist Gelett Burgess in 1907 on a dust jacket at a trade association dinner in 1907. The dust jacket said “YES, this is a “BLURB”!” and featured a (fictitious) “Miss Belinda Blurb” shown calling out, described as “in the act of blurbing”. Etymology templates: {{coinage|en|Gelett Burgess|in=1907|nat=American|nobycat=1|occ=humorist}} Coined by American humorist Gelett Burgess in 1907 Head templates: {{en-verb}} blurb (third-person singular simple present blurbs, present participle blurbing, simple past and past participle blurbed)
  1. (transitive) To write or quote in a blurb. Tags: transitive
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  2. (transitive) To supply with a blurb. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-blurb-en-verb-z4bTPlAh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: capsule review

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1978 July 23, William Cole, “The Blurb and I”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "In a few weeks, blurbs would come back; a few, or many, depending on the book. There were certain writers we knew were always good for a blurb: Louis Untermeyer would always come through — poetry, fiction, humor — whatever, he'd send a well‐turned commendation.",
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        }
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        "A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes."
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        ]
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "blakerteks"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "flapteks"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "taqrīẓ",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "تَقْرِيظ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sinopsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "大作廣告"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dàzuò guǎnggào",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "大作广告"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "flaptekst"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "takakansiteksti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "mainosteksti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "quatrième de couverture"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Klappentext"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Einbandtext"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Umschlagtext"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "english": "books",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "fülszöveg"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fascetta pubblicitaria"
    },
    {
      "alt": "せんでんぶん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sendenbun",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "宣伝文"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "brødtekst"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "taqriz",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "تقریظ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blurb"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "sinopse"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "resumo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "síntese"
    },
    {
      "alt": "рекла́мная",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "annotácija",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "аннота́ция"
    },
    {
      "alt": "изда́тельская",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rekláma",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "рекла́ма"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "sinopsis"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "resumen"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "síntesis"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "anmälan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "word": "baksidestext"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "broliant"
    }
  ],
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}

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    {
      "word": "capsule review"
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        {
          "ref": "2007 July 4, David M. Halbfinger, “Appearing Way Before the Film: The Review”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "When Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald blogged about having seen and loved “The Departed” in Toronto in a supposedly private screening last fall, Warner Brothers “scolded me very strongly,” he said, “but they still blurbed a line from my blog in their opening ad.”",
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        "To write or quote in a blurb."
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        "(transitive) To write or quote in a blurb."
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          "ref": "2012 April 17, Jon Michaud, “Blurb This!”, in The New Yorker:",
          "text": "The unseemly business of book blurbing has been source of both humor and concern in the pages of The New Yorker.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Peter Simonson, David W. Park, The International History of Communication Study, page 268:",
          "text": "Edward R. Murrow and other leading radio personalities blurbed the book, published in 1950 by Oxford University Press, and Siepmann thanked Paul Lazarsfeld and Herta Herzog in his acknowledgments.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To supply with a blurb."
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        "(transitive) To supply with a blurb."
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      "ipa": "/blɝ(ː)b/"
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