different between blag vs bleg

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl??/

Etymology 1

Unknown

Noun

bleg (plural blegs)

1. (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.

Etymology 2

Blend of blog +? beg. Anglo-American writer John Derbyshire claims to have coined this word in 2002, although earlier usage may have occurred.

Noun

bleg (plural blegs)

1. (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

bleg (third-person singular simple present blegs, present participle blegging, simple past and past participle blegged)

1. (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

Anagrams

• Belg.

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bleikr, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz. Related to blege.

Adjective

bleg

1. pale, pallid

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

bleg

1. imperative of blege

Romanian

Etymology

Possibly from a derivative of Common Slavic *bolg? (“good”) (compare Serbo-Croatian blag), or Serbo-Croatian blek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ble?/

Adjective

bleg m or n (feminine singular bleag?, masculine plural blegi, feminine and neuter plural blege)

1. soft, shy, silly, dull, weak, foolish, sheepish
2. (of ears, usually animals) going down, droopy

Declension

Scots

Alternative forms

• bleget

Etymology

From Old Norse bleikr.

Adjective

bleg

1. (of colour) Light and drab, esp. of (wool of) sheep.

References

• https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/bleg_adj