See also: blagué

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French blague. Doublet of belly.

Noun edit

blague (countable and uncountable, plural blagues)

  1. mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug

Related terms edit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “blague”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

18th century, from Dutch balg. The sense “joke” (ca. 1800) from the notion of something puffed up, hence vain, fanciful.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /blaɡ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɡ

Noun edit

blague f (plural blagues)

  1. pouch, especially for tobacco
  2. joke
    Synonyms: plaisanterie f, (North America) joke f
  3. (Louisiana, Cajun) a penis
    Synonym: pénis m

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Verb edit

blague

  1. inflection of blaguer:
    1. first/third-person singular
    2. second-person imperative
    3. first/third-person subjunctive

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Descendants edit

  • Italian: blaga, blague
  • Polish: blaga

Further reading edit

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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from French blague.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

blague f (plural blagues)

  1. a humorous brag

Further reading edit

  • blague in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana