blague
See also: blagué
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French blague. Doublet of belly.
Noun edit
blague (countable and uncountable, plural blagues)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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French edit
Alternative forms edit
- blaque (obsolete)
Etymology edit
18th century, from Dutch balg. The sense “joke” (ca. 1800) from the notion of something puffed up, hence vain, fanciful.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
blague f (plural blagues)
- pouch, especially for tobacco
- joke
- Synonyms: plaisanterie f, (North America) joke f
- (Louisiana, Cajun) a penis
- Synonym: pénis m
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Verb edit
blague
- inflection of blaguer:
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Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “blague”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Alternative forms edit
- blaga (uncommon)
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French blague.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
blague f (plural blagues)
Further reading edit
- blague in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana