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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Unknown
Noun[edit]
bleg (plural blegs)
- (Northumbria) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus).
- 2007, Jack Melton, "Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem", Sunderland Echo, 4 July 2007:
- Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg)
- 2007, "Sea Angling latest", Sunderland Echo, 7 November 2007:
- Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs) on squid.
- 2008, "Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up", Sunderland Echo, 29 May 2008:
- The only report on boat fishing last week was on Tuesday when the Wanderer managed to get out and took about a dozen codling to three pounds plus a few blegs.
- 2009, "Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open", Sunderland Echo, 10 December 2010:
- Saturday saw just three Seahan SAC juniors fishing for the J.T. Jacobs Cup, with two weighing in three coalies, a codling and a bleg.
- 2007, Jack Melton, "Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem", Sunderland Echo, 4 July 2007:
Etymology 2[edit]
Blend of blog + beg.[1] Anglo-American writer John Derbyshire claims to have coined this word in 2002,[2] although earlier usage may have occurred.
Noun[edit]
bleg (plural blegs)
- (Internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
- I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.
- 2008, Andrew Sullivan, "The Utter Arrogance Of It", The Atlantic, 29 August 2008:
- Here's a bleg: can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?
- 2010, James Wolcott, "A Grammer of Motives*", Vanity Fair, 9 September 2010:
- Last time I looked, The QOR Club was a shuttered ghost town, and Jeff Goldstein is still doing monthly blegs to pay for the capital letters required to proclaim OUTLAW! at the end of his sporadic posts.
- 2012, Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, Regnery Publishing, Inc. (2012), →ISBN, page 267 (acknowledgments section):
- This book was crowdsourced among many friends, who helped me to new insights about love in the twenty-first century and into Jane Austen; answered frantic Facebook blegs for sources of quotations I couldn't find; […]
Verb[edit]
bleg (third-person singular simple present blegs, present participle blegging, simple past and past participle blegged)
- (Internet slang) To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
- That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.
- 2008, "Strange looks and funny lines from the past week", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 18 May 2008:
- The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.
- 2009, John J. Miller, "Novels of the Right, cont.", National Review Online, 30 November 2009:
- About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].
- 2009, Curtis Brainard, "It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…", Columbia Journalism Review, 7 August 2009:
- Zimmer had "blegged" (that’s right, begged on his blog) his readers to help him compile a number of book and article titles for inclusion in that list, and they "did not disappoint."
- 2010, Iain Murray, "Chicagoan Voting System!", National Review Online, 15 April 2010:
- Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.
References[edit]
- ^ Ben Zimmer, "Web", The New York Times, 11 November 2010
- ^ John Derbyshire, "July Diary", National Review Online, 1 August 2002
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Norse bleikr, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz. Related to blege.
Adjective[edit]
bleg
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of bleg | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Common singular | bleg | blegere | blegest2 |
Neuter singular | blegt | blegere | blegest2 |
Plural | blege | blegere | blegest2 |
Definite attributive1 | blege | blegere | blegeste |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb[edit]
bleg
- imperative of blege
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly from a derivative of Common Slavic *bolgъ (“good”) (compare Serbo-Croatian blag), or Serbo-Croatian blek.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
bleg m or n (feminine singular bleagă, masculine plural blegi, feminine and neuter plural blege)
Declension[edit]
Declension of bleg
Scots[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
bleg
References[edit]
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