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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?blæm], [?blam]
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

By onomatopoeia.

Noun

blam (plural blams)

1. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot

   He kicked in the door with a blam.

Interjection

blam

1. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot

   That the last zombie? Here. Let me get that for ya. *BLAM!*

Verb

blam (third-person singular simple present blams, present participle blamming, simple past and past participle blammed) (slang, MLE, regional African-American Vernacular)

1. (intransitive) To shoot, to let gunfire pass.
2. (transitive) To shoot, to kill by gunshot.

Derived terms

• blam up (“= to shoot up”) 

Etymology 2

Blend of blog +? spam

Noun

blam (uncountable)

1. (Internet, informal) spam posted to a blog
   • 2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy

     […] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]

Anagrams

• ALBM, BAML, LBMA, Lamb, balm, lamb

Middle English

Noun

blam

1. (rare) Alternative form of blame

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Back-formation from blamírati.

Noun

bl?m m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Serbia, colloquial) (feeling of) embarrassment

Related terms

• blamáža (“(an instance of) embarrassment”)
• blamírati (“to embarrass”)

English

Etymology

From French, either from blé (“wheat”) or from blanc (“white”) as in pain blanc (“white bread”).

Noun

blaa (plural blaas)

1. (bakery, Ireland) a soft white breakfast roll, traditionally associated with south-east Ireland

Derived terms

• Waterford blaa

Anagrams

• AABL, Alba, Ba'al, Baal, Bala, Ba?al, LABA, alba, baal, laab

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish bláth, from Proto-Celtic *bl?tus, from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“blossom, flower”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ble?/

Noun

blaa m (genitive singular blaa, plural blaaghyn)

1. flower
2. bloom
3. pride
4. heyday

Mutation

Derived terms

• blaag
• blaaghey
• blaagheyder
• blaanid
• blaaoil