different between blag vs blague

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from French blague (“joke, tall story”), blaguer (“to joke”), from Old Occitan blagar (“to chat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Verb

blag (third-person singular simple present blags, present participle blagging, simple past and past participle blagged)

1. (Britain, informal, transitive) To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.

   Synonyms: obtain, sponge; see also Thesaurus:scrounge

2. (Britain, informal, specifically) To obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.

   Synonym: pretext

3. (Polari) To pick up someone.
4. (Britain, informal, 1960s) To inveigle by persuasion.

5. (Britain, informal, 1940s) To deceive; to perpetrate a hoax on.

Translations

Noun

blag (plural blags)

1. (Britain, informal) A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.

2. (Britain criminal slang) An armed robbery.
   • 2014, Echo Freer, Diamond Geezers

     I know your old man's keen for you to learn the ropes an' all that, but let's not forget who's running this blag, shall we?

Adjective

blag (comparative more blag, superlative most blag)

1. (Britain, informal) Fake, not genuine.

   Synonym: fake

Derived terms

• blagger

Translations

Etymology 2

First attested in xkcd: "Mispronouncing".

Noun

blag (plural blags)

1. (humorous) Misspelling of blog. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Etymology 3

Tagalog blag

Interjection

blag

1. (Philippines) An onomatopoeia for the sound of a falling strike. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Further reading

• blag at The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary

References

Anagrams

• Glab

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French blague.

Noun

blag

1. joke

German Low German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl??x/, /bl??x/ (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)

Adjective

blag

1. Alternative spelling of blaag

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bolg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blâ??/

Adjective

bl?g (definite bl?g?, comparative bl?ž?, Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. mild, gentle, soft
2. (intensifier, colloquial) any, damn, faintest

Declension

Related terms

• blagost

Derived terms

Further reading

• “blag” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bolg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blá?k/

Adjective

bl?g (comparative blážji or bl?žji, superlative n?jblážji or n?jbl?žji)

1. mild, gentle, soft

Further reading

• “blag”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French blague. Doublet of belly.

Noun

blague (countable and uncountable, plural blagues)

1. mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug

Related terms

• blag

Anagrams

• Beluga, abulge, beluga

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch balg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bla?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

blague f (plural blagues)

1. pouch
2. joke
3. (Louisiana, Cajun French) a penis

Synonyms

• (joke): plaisanterie f, (Louisiana, Quebec) joke f
• (penis): pénis m

Derived terms

• blague à part
• blague de cul

Verb

blague

1. first-person singular of blaguer
2. third-person singular of blaguer
3. second-person imperative of blaguer
4. first-person subjunctive of blaguer
5. third-person subjunctive of blaguer

Derived terms

• blaguer
• la bonne blague
• sans blague

Descendants

• ? Polish: blaga

Further reading

• “blague” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• béluga
• beugla